Rochester (approching), NY, USA
My wife and I were driving from Brockport to our home in Rochester, NY in the evening when we spotted three bright discs hovering in th
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-01
- Where
- Rochester (approching), NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- afew minutes
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rochester-approching-ny-1965-7c4c16
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 1 documented reports from Rochester (approching), NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 20 sightings in 1965.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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