Fort Ord, CA, USA
Triangurlar object peeks at U.S. Army recruits following display of live fire at Fort Ord, CA. around Aug. 12, 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.
- Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-12
- Where
- Fort Ord, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- < 60 sec
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-fort-ord-ca-1965-e95806
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
- Fort Ord, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from California in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 4.3% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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