Troy, OH, USA
Bright light that persisted for quite a while, about 100 feet above the ground shot up and disappeared when I got out to look closer.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-10-05
- Where
- Troy, OH, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.039, -84.203 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-troy-oh-1966-11800c
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
- Troy, OH has 19 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 16 reports from Ohio.
Report
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