UFOMYST
CaseFireball1965

Hornick, IA, USA

Bright orange/red fireball crosses sky in western Iowa in summer of 1965.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-07-15
Where
Hornick, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1/2 min.
Geo
42.231, -96.098 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hornick-ia-1965-ca8800
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hornick, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 3 sightings in 1965.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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