UFOMYST
CaseOther1966

Rochester (outside of), NY, USA

Outside Rochester, New York in August 1966, witnesses reported objects appearing to fly in from the west, stop briefly, then vanish, over about ten 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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (156 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-08-15
Where
Rochester (outside of), NY, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 min
Geo
43.155, -77.616 · exact
Slug
other-over-rochester-outside-of-ny-1966-9eef63
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • Rochester (outside of), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 13 reports came from New York in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 6.8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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