CaseOval1966

Manor, PA, USA

In Manor, Pennsylvania in June 1966, a witness reported a bright oval-shaped light drifting past their window and illuminating the whole room for about five seconds.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (165 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-30
Where
Manor, PA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.334, -79.670 · exact
Slug
oval-over-manor-pa-1966-4a2662
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

  • Manor, PA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 14 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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