Whiteman AFB, MO, USA
At Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri in June 1966, military personnel reported a saucer-like disk object in the sky, observed over about two hours.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (147 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-15
- Where
- Whiteman AFB, MO, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 38.730, -93.559 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-whiteman-afb-mo-1966-f6f4b0
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
- Whiteman AFB, MO has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 5 reports from Missouri.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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