UFOMYST
CaseFireball1965

St. Ansgar, IA, USA

winter nite wonder

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-01-01
Where
St. Ansgar, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
43.378, -92.919 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-ansgar-ia-1965-50ba5d
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

  • St. Ansgar, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Iowa in 1965.
  • In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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