Gadsden, AL, USA
Blue ball drifted down to within reach, backed away as I reached then shot away after I reached again.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-05-15
- Where
- Gadsden, AL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 sec. aprox.
- Geo
- 34.014, -86.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-gadsden-al-1965-6e08c9
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 15 documented reports from Gadsden, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 2 sightings in 1965.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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