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CaseFireball1965

Middletown, CT, USA

Near Middletown, Connecticut on December 9, 1965, a witness reported a fireball roughly the size of a house crossing the evening sky, visible for about two minutes.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (164 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-12-09
Where
Middletown, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 min.
Geo
41.562, -72.651 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-middletown-ct-1965-f3ccfd
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  • 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

  • Middletown, CT has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 1965 brought 9 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

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