Philadelphia, PA, USA
A witness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania described a brilliantly lit, cigar-shaped object about the size of a city bus during a close-range encounter, lasting about five minutes, June 1965.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-25
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-philadelphia-pa-1965-6fd871
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
- Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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