CaseOther1966

Reading, PA, USA

There is not one doubt in my mind as to what it was that I saw. I am an electronic (Retired) technician and know what I am talking abou

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-04-25
Where
Reading, PA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
40.336, -75.927 · exact
Slug
other-over-reading-pa-1966-3d0ce5
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

  • Reading, PA has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 14 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1960s skewed 6.8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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