UFOMYST
CaseLight1966

Buffalo, NY, USA

One of the bright stars moved north, curved upward, flew in a wide arc, then accelerated up into the cosmos.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-10-01
Where
Buffalo, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
42.886, -78.878 · exact
Slug
light-over-buffalo-ny-1966-8fedcb
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'…

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In context

  • Buffalo, NY has 130 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 13 reports from New York.
  • The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

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.