CaseOval1967

Opa Locka, FL, USA

Witnesses reported three oval-shaped objects above Crestview Elementary School in Opa-Locka, Florida, in April 1967, with the sighting lasting about two hours and drawing several hundred observers.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (197 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1967-04-01
Where
Opa Locka, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 hours
Geo
25.902, -80.250 · exact
Slug
oval-over-opa-locka-fl-1967-c8b24c
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

  • Opa Locka, FL shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Florida in 1967.
  • In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.