Vernon, TX, USA
Near Vernon, Texas on August 15, 1965, witnesses reported an orange-red light performing movements they described as physically inexplicable, visible for about 45 minutes.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Vernon, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 34.155, -99.266 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-vernon-tx-1965-645c48
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Vernon, TX.
- This case is one of 11 Texas reports filed in 1965.
- Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.