UFOMYST
CaseDisk1966

Rochester, NY, USA

Disc shaped object came down from clouds, hovered for 15 seconds, then slowly went back up into the clouds.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-08-30
Where
Rochester, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
43.155, -77.616 · exact
Slug
disk-over-rochester-ny-1966-1ac12f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • This is one of 139 reports logged in Rochester, NY.
  • This case is one of 13 New York reports filed in 1966.
  • Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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