Novomikhailovka (USSR), Russia (USSR)
Witnesses near Novomikhailovka, in the former USSR, reported a fireball-shaped object over the Black Sea shore during a two-to-three-minute sighting in August 1967.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-19
- Where
- Novomikhailovka (USSR), Russia (USSR)
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-novomikhailovka-ussr-1967-295872
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
- Novomikhailovka (USSR), Russia (USSR) has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 1 reports from Russia (USSR).
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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