Red Oak, IA, USA
Two unidentified extremely bright lights, one large - one smaller, clearly visible on a sunny clear day, moving at incredible speed..
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-01
- Where
- Red Oak, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 - 20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.010, -95.226 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-red-oak-ia-1967-48908d
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 3 documented reports from Red Oak, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 2 sightings in 1967.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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