Babylon, NY, USA
A witness in Babylon, New York, reported a circular object with lights around its perimeter hovering overhead during a two-minute sighting in August 1967.
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 (154 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-08
- Where
- Babylon, NY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.696, -73.326 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-babylon-ny-1967-d06001
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
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Babylon, NY.
- This case is one of 14 New York reports filed in 1967.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.