CaseLight1961
Shenandoah, PA, USA
In 1961, a witness in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, reported lights that appeared to emerge from behind the moon, visible in the sky for a few minutes.
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 (147 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-04-01
- Where
- Shenandoah, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- few minutes
- Geo
- 40.820, -76.201 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-shenandoah-pa-1961-3cdfcd
In context
- Shenandoah, PA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1961 brought 4 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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