Hickman, KY, USA
6 objects disappear and reappear jumping about 5 miles of airspace to dodge an airplane.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-03-02
- Where
- Hickman, KY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.571, -89.186 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-hickman-ky-1967-83b83f
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
- Hickman, KY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Kentucky in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 1.8% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.