UFOMYST
CaseSphere1966

Welland (Canada), ON, Canada

Orange sphere moving erratically and at rapid speeds

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-08-07
Where
Welland (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.983, -79.250 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-welland-canada-on-1966-c848d5
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'…

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In context

  • One of 18 documented reports from Welland (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 9 sightings in 1966.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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