CaseOval1967

Gibson, NY, USA

aerodynamics-defying object sighted

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-04-22
Where
Gibson, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.140, -77.031 · exact
Slug
oval-over-gibson-ny-1967-a7783d
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

  • Gibson, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 14 reports came from New York in 1967.
  • In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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