Decatur, AL, USA
Strange light shivered across sky, stopped overhead, tried to land, stopped, and then took off out of sight in 2 seconds.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-04
- Where
- Decatur, AL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.606, -86.983 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-decatur-al-1967-81ff4a
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
- One of 10 documented reports from Decatur, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 4 sightings in 1967.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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