UFOMYST
CaseFireball1965

Rocky River, OH, USA

The Kecksburg event, eyewitness.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-12-09
Where
Rocky River, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
41.476, -81.839 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rocky-river-oh-1965-5350d8
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Rocky River, OH.
  • This case is one of 9 Ohio reports filed in 1965.
  • Fireball craft made up 2.5% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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.