CaseSphere1965

Middletown, NY, USA

Posssible UFO seen near Middletown, NY on the November night of the great northeastern black-out of 1965.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-11-09
Where
Middletown, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
one second
Geo
41.446, -74.423 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-middletown-ny-1965-b023a6
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'…

In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Middletown, 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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