Winston-Salem, NC, USA
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina in June 1966, witnesses reported football-shaped objects with lights hovering over a neighborhood, streaking away at high speed and returning, over 20 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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (192 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-30
- Where
- Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.100, -80.244 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-winston-salem-nc-1966-bd8a4f
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
- Winston-Salem, NC shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from North Carolina in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 6.8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.