CaseOval1965
Knobnoster, MO, USA
In 1965, we saw one near Whiteman AFB, Missouri
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-01
- Where
- Knobnoster, MO, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- we watched 20 minutes
- Geo
- 38.767, -93.559 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-knobnoster-mo-1965-d31d45
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
- Knobnoster, MO shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Missouri in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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