Newtown Square, PA, USA
Near Newtown Square, Pennsylvania in December 1965, witnesses reported a flaming, burning object moving very low and slowly across the sky around 5:00 pm.
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 (154 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-12-09
- Where
- Newtown Square, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1700hrs
- Geo
- 39.987, -75.401 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newtown-square-pa-1965-220ad6
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 7 reports logged in Newtown Square, PA.
- This case is one of 22 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1965.
- Fireball craft made up 2.5% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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