UFO News Article: “Flying Object Chased 86 Miles”

18 April 1966

(News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio)

Source: Newspapers.com

Quote from the article:

“ ‘We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,’ said a deputy sheriff who chased a flying object from Portage County into Pennsylvania.

Hundreds of persons in Ohio and Pennsylvania reported seeing the ‘brilliant and shiny’ object early Sunday morning (17 April 1966).

Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the Air Force told him not to release it.

Buchert said it looked like ‘two table saucers put together.’

Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur sad he and his partner, W. L. Neff, ‘were close’ to the object in separate cars and chased it 86 miles for an hour and a half, from near Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh.”

Photo text:

“UFO LOOKED LIKE THIS – Portage County deputy sheriff Dale Spaur indicated that the shape of a flying object he chased early yesterday looked like the head of a flashlight. Spaur and his partner, W. L. Neff, said they drove 86 miles following the object through eastern Ohio before losing it near Conway, Pa. ‘Somebody had control over of it,’ Spaur said. ‘It can maneuver.’ ”

https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=30593164

Wikipedia article: “Ravenna, Ohio”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenna,_Ohio

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UFO photographed (by Police Chief Gerald Buchert) 

in Mantua, Ohio, on 17 April 1966

(Easynow’s UFO Forum/youtube.com image)

Satellite photo of Ravenna, Ohio (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)