CaseLight1965

Jacksonville, FL, USA

Bright light makes 90 degree turn.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-11-05
Where
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
30.332, -81.656 · exact
Slug
light-over-jacksonville-fl-1965-155b7e
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 256 documented reports from Jacksonville, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 9 sightings in 1965.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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