B-52; inflight, NH, USA
A B-52 aircrew flying near New Hampshire reported a very bright point of light on November 2, 1965, just before the Northeast blackout, visible for 15 to 20 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-11-02
- Where
- B-52; inflight, NH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 to 20 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-b-52-inflight-nh-1965-ef61a1
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
- B-52; inflight, NH has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 4 reports from New Hampshire.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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