Middlesboro, KY, USA
Witnesses in Middlesboro, Kentucky, reported an oval-shaped object with a gray underside that appeared as large as the field they were standing in, during a sighting in August 1967.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (181 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-08
- Where
- Middlesboro, KY, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 36.608, -83.717 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-middlesboro-ky-1967-3c4ba0
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
- Middlesboro, KY shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Kentucky in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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