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
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
- 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 daysReport
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