Hains Falls (Catskill Mts.), NY, USA
Near Hains Falls in the Catskill Mountains, New York on July 4, 1965, witnesses reported colored lights dancing in the sky for a few minutes.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (141 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-04
- Where
- Hains Falls (Catskill Mts.), NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2.00
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-hains-falls-catskill-mts-ny-1965-27d9ed
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
- Hains Falls (Catskill Mts.), NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from New York in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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