New Salem, PA, USA
4 adults and 2 children witness spherical object with apparent flame coming from rear, flying across sky in front of them silently.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-01
- Where
- New Salem, PA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.901, -76.789 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-salem-pa-1966-394731
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
- New Salem, PA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 14 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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