UFOMYST
CaseCone1966

Salida, CO, USA

Super bright object in NW sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-05-12
Where
Salida, CO, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
1 hour
Geo
38.535, -105.999 · exact
Slug
cone-over-salida-co-1966-5bc479
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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In context

  • Salida, CO has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 1 reports from Colorado.
  • The 1960s skewed 0.3% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Report

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