Webster City, IA, USA
Witnesses near Webster City, Iowa, reported two silent, slow-moving red spherical objects that suddenly accelerated and vanished from sight during a two-minute sighting in December 1966.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-12-15
- Where
- Webster City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.469, -93.816 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-webster-city-ia-1966-7c2614
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
- Webster City, IA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 5 reports from Iowa.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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