CaseOval1966
El Paso, TX, USA
Silent UFO hovered right above 5 kids.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-03-24
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-el-paso-tx-1966-09e9c3
Wave
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
- El Paso, TX shows up 123 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Texas in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.