Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Near Portsmouth, England in August 1966, a witness reported a solid, rectangular airframe-like structure in the sky, observed for about three 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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (150 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-08-30
- Where
- Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 50.799, -1.091 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-portsmouth-1966-f75b59
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
- Portsmouth, United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from United Kingdom in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 0.9% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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