CaseOval1965

Harrisburg, PA, USA

I'm not sure of the exact date.

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 (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-07-20
Where
Harrisburg, PA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 sec
Geo
40.274, -76.884 · exact
Slug
oval-over-harrisburg-pa-1965-f67bd2
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

  • One of 55 documented reports from Harrisburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 22 sightings in 1965.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.6% during the 1960s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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