Valley Forge, PA, USA
Ball decending toward home about 50 yds. away and about 50 ft. high..Son panicked and ran into house thinking it was a plane about to c
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-12-15
- Where
- Valley Forge, PA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 6 mins
- Geo
- 40.097, -75.470 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-valley-forge-pa-1966-3fc1ed
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Valley Forge, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 14 sightings in 1966.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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