UFOMYST
CaseLight1967

Bentonia, MS, USA

A witness in Bentonia, Mississippi, reported an intensely bright light that did not illuminate the surrounding ground, then shot rapidly across the sky, during a five-minute sighting in 1967.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (191 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-09-01
Where
Bentonia, MS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 min
Geo
32.641, -90.365 · exact
Slug
light-over-bentonia-ms-1967-c40832
Don't stop here

Continue the trail

One more hop — same place, same craft, or the next signal on the graph.

Next caseLight · Yazoo City, MSsame light · 24 km
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Bentonia, MS.
  • This case is one of 1 Mississippi reports filed in 1967.
  • Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

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.

End of report

Keep going

One more hop — same place, same craft, or the next signal on the graph.