CaseLight1962
Charlottetown (Canada), PE, Canada
In 1962, a witness in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, reported a light speeding from the horizon, stopping and turning 90 degrees at high speed before hovering overhead.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-08-22
- Where
- Charlottetown (Canada), PE, Canada
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 46.235, -63.126 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-charlottetown-canada-pe-1962-910686
In context
- Charlottetown (Canada), Canada shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Canada in 1962.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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