Old Saybrook, CT, USA
Cluster of red lights hovering at low altitude without sound during Great Northeast Black-out
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-11-09
- Where
- Old Saybrook, CT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 Min
- Geo
- 41.292, -72.376 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-old-saybrook-ct-1965-afc562
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
- Old Saybrook, CT shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Connecticut in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.