CaseLight1967

Decatur, AL, USA

Strange light shivered across sky, stopped overhead, tried to land, stopped, and then took off out of sight in 2 seconds.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-06-04
Where
Decatur, AL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
34.606, -86.983 · exact
Slug
light-over-decatur-al-1967-81ff4a
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Decatur, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 4 sightings in 1967.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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