Little Axe, OK, USA
Near Little Axe, Oklahoma on June 21, 1966, a witness reported a light-shaped object flying level, stopping instantly, hovering, and then vanishing rapidly, within about five minutes.
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 (183 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-21
- Where
- Little Axe, OK, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.233, -97.213 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-little-axe-ok-1966-f01b6c
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 2 reports logged in Little Axe, OK.
- This case is one of 2 Oklahoma 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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