UFOMYST
CaseSphere1965

Virden, IL, USA

12 year old sights Virden, IL UFO

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-08-01
Where
Virden, IL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 Seconds
Geo
39.501, -89.768 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-virden-il-1965-25d5ce
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'…

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Virden, IL.
  • This case is one of 7 Illinois 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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