Mentone, AL, USA
Near Mentone, Alabama in May 1966, a witness reported two egg-shaped objects skirting a ridge top while keeping an equal distance from each other, moving fast for about ten seconds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (181 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-05-15
- Where
- Mentone, AL, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.579, -85.590 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-mentone-al-1966-70af9d
Part of a wave
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'…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Mentone, AL.
- This case is one of 2 Alabama reports filed in 1966.
- Egg craft made up 1.2% of 1960s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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