UFOMYST
CaseChevron1966

Opa Locka, FL, USA

Multiple reports describe chevron-shaped objects hovering over an elementary school in Opa-Locka, Florida, for extended periods around 1966, though few first-hand details survive.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 43200s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (179 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1966-11-01
Where
Opa Locka, FL, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
>12 hours
Geo
25.902, -80.250 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-opa-locka-fl-1966-0ef224
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Opa Locka, FL reports filed in November 1966.

In context

  • Opa Locka, FL shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 11 reports came from Florida in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 0.9% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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