CaseOval1965

Massapequa Park, NY, USA

Fast quiet objects moving in formation with unheard of speed and precision.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-05-12
Where
Massapequa Park, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.680, -73.455 · exact
Slug
oval-over-massapequa-park-ny-1965-031eb0
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Massapequa Park, NY.
  • This case is one of 20 New York reports filed in 1965.
  • Oval craft made up 6.6% of 1960s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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