CaseFireball1965
Pulaski, VA, USA
Could'nt believe it !
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (21 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-20
- Where
- Pulaski, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.048, -80.780 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pulaski-va-1965-e444e8
Wave
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
- Pulaski, VA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 6 reports from Virginia.
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.