CaseRectangle1963
Johnstown, PA, USA
A witness in Johnstown, Pennsylvania described a very large, flat rectangular object with a rotating, illuminated dome underneath, seen for three to five minutes in June 1963.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-06-30
- Where
- Johnstown, PA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 to 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.327, -78.922 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-johnstown-pa-1963-4b2307
In context
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Johnstown, PA.
- This case is one of 2 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1963.
- Rectangle craft made up 0.9% of 1960s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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