Delano, CA, USA
A witness in Delano, California reported a formation of objects at night heading toward the Radio Free Europe transmission towers, in a sighting lasting about 15 minutes in June 1965.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (183 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-15
- Where
- Delano, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 35.769, -119.247 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-delano-ca-1965-1d1c9c
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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
- Delano, CA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from California in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 1.8% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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