Scottsville, KY, USA
Witnesses in Scottsville, Kentucky reported a blinding light hovering overhead on June 1, 1965, visible for about twenty minutes before it moved off.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (149 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-01
- Where
- Scottsville, KY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.753, -86.191 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-scottsville-ky-1965-df1553
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
- Scottsville, KY shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Kentucky in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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