UFOMYST
CaseDisk1966

Galesburg, IL, USA

Huge Disk Hovering Over Neighbor's Home

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-08-15
Where
Galesburg, IL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.948, -90.371 · exact
Slug
disk-over-galesburg-il-1966-a83b20
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

  • Galesburg, IL has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 9 reports from Illinois.
  • The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.