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Portage county UFO chase
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The Portage County UFO Chase was an unidentified flying object encounter that began in Portage County, Ohio on the morning of April 17, 1966, when police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff observed a metallic, disc shaped object flying in the skies.[1]
They pursued the object for about half an hour, ending up in Pennsylvania before losing sight of the UFO. Several other police officers became involved in the chase, and several civilians reported witnessing the same object, or a similar object in about the same area, during this time.
After interviewing one of the police witnesses, Project Blue Book (the official UFO investigative arm of the U.S. Air Force) determined that the witnesses had chased a communications satellite, then the planet Venus. This conclusion was rejected by the officers involved as ridiculously inadequate.
See also
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edit- Jerome Clark, The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial, Visible Ink, 1998
- Ann Druffel, Firestorm: James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science, Wildflower Press, 2005
- http://m.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/04/14/50-years-ago-a-small-town-ohio-policeman-chased-a-flying-saucer-into-pennsylvania-and-it-ruined-his-life
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Category:UFO sightings Category:1966 in Ohio Category:Portage County, Ohio