CaseDisk1966

Mission, TX, USA

I was driving to the hospital after work to visit my dad. Suddenly, about 3 blocks ahead of me a disc lite object appeared. It arriv

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-10-13
Where
Mission, TX, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
26.216, -98.325 · exact
Slug
disk-over-mission-tx-1966-35d7af
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'…

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Mission, TX.
  • This case is one of 12 Texas reports filed in 1966.
  • Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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