Portage County police UFO chase

First page of a Project Blue Book case file for Ravenna and Mantua, Ohio
Project Blue Book file on the April 1966 Ravenna, Ohio, sighting chased by Portage County deputies Project Blue Book, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Portage County deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff said they chased a bright object from near Ravenna about 85 miles into Pennsylvania before dawn; officers elsewhere reported it too. Blue Book chief Hector Quintanilla attributed it partly to Venus, an answer the deputies and others disputed.

Sources

  1. PressStrangers in the Night (James Renner) (opens in a new tab)Cleveland Scene / 2004-03-31
  2. OtherHe chased a flying saucer, now his life is shattered (John De Groot, AP), Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 9, 1966 (opens in a new tab)Cleveland Plain Dealer (transcription hosted by ufologie.patrickgross.org) / 1966-10-09

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