Jefferson City, MO, USA
Mid 1960's in Jefferson City Mo silver sphere descended and rapidly ascended upon approach of a military jet
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-09-01
- Where
- Jefferson City, MO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes or so
- Geo
- 38.577, -92.174 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-jefferson-city-mo-1965-cff66b
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
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Jefferson City, MO.
- This case is one of 7 Missouri reports filed in 1965.
- Sphere craft made up 7.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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