UFOMYST
CaseLight1966

Centerville, IA, USA

90 degree angles uniform stair step flight pattern, very bright light, silent

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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-07-15
Where
Centerville, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
aprox 15-30 minutes
Geo
42.093, -93.936 · exact
Slug
light-over-centerville-ia-1966-a3518f
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

  • Centerville, IA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Iowa in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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