UFOMYST
CaseFireball1965

Grand Island, NY, USA

WE SAW A PERFECT VIEW OF THE KECKSBURG COMET.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-12-09
Where
Grand Island, NY, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
~5 to 10 seconds
Geo
43.033, -78.963 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-grand-island-ny-1965-ffc353
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

  • Grand Island, NY has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1965 brought 20 reports from New York.
  • The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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