CaseLight1967

Bentonia, MS, USA

a light that did not light the ground around me but was so bright i just could look at it then it shot across the sky

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-09-01
Where
Bentonia, MS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 min
Geo
32.641, -90.365 · exact
Slug
light-over-bentonia-ms-1967-c40832
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 1 reports logged in Bentonia, MS.
  • This case is one of 1 Mississippi reports filed in 1967.
  • Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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