Leavenworth, KS, USA
As I was looking at the near horizon there was clearly a strip of flashing white lights moving very slowly horizontally for five to ten
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-01
- Where
- Leavenworth, KS, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.311, -94.922 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-leavenworth-ks-1965-5bf932
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
- One of 21 documented reports from Leavenworth, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 4 sightings in 1965.
- Flash sightings ran at 0.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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