Portage County Ohio Police Car Chase UFO, Ohio-Pennsylvania, April 17, 1966
In the pre-dawn hours of April 17, 1966, Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur and mounted deputy Wilbur Neff encountered a brilliantly luminous, low-flying unidentified object near Atwater, Ohio,…
Narration
Before dawn over Ohio farmland, something enormous and brilliantly luminous hovered motionless.
April 17, 1966 — Deputy Spaur's cruiser rolls toward the unknown on Route 224.
Spaur and Neff stepped out staring upward — the blinding glow made their eyes water.
One hundred and five miles per hour — the ice-cream-cone shape blazed east into Pennsylvania.
Project Blue Book blamed Venus. Dr. J. Allen Hynek called the explanation wholly inadequate.
Near Conway, Pennsylvania, the object accelerated upward and vanished into dawn.