Penarth (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
penarth uk circle 3mins stayed 30ft above me for 3 mins slowly moved of and then with the blink of the eye the speed was unreal
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-10-10
- Where
- Penarth (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- about 3 mins
- Geo
- 51.439, -3.173 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-penarth-uk-wales-1965-2a3f95
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Penarth (UK/Wales), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 3 sightings in 1965.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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