CaseOval1965
Oneonta, NY, USA
Large Illuminated Oval Disk - Oneonta NY - 1965
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Oneonta, NY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.453, -75.064 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-oneonta-ny-1965-33030a
Wave
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
- Oneonta, NY shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from New York in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.