Punxsutawney, PA, USA
What I’m describing took place in the mid 1960’s or a little after that. These are the events that I remember, as time may have clouded
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-01
- Where
- Punxsutawney, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- months
- Geo
- 40.944, -78.971 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-punxsutawney-pa-1966-c04257
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
- Punxsutawney, PA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1966.
Report
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