Germany (enroute to France), Germany
While on leave in the US Army we rented a car and was in route to Paris; enroute, we witnessed a "meteor" descent, then ascend.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-30
- Where
- Germany (enroute to France), Germany
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 45.567, -66.632 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-germany-enroute-to-france-1966-5bb0b9
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Germany (enroute to France), Germany.
- This case is one of 2 Germany reports filed in 1966.
- Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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