Maine, NY, USA
My mother woke us kids up to see a rotating craft hovering over Broome County Airport. She called the airport and they claimed they sa
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-05-17
- Where
- Maine, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 42.193, -76.061 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-maine-ny-1965-e06583
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Maine, NY.
- This case is one of 20 New York reports filed in 1965.
- Sphere craft made up 7.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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