3 lights in a triangle over Nesquehoning, PA; also reported over Shenandoah, PA - April 1, 1965
I’m writing this on behalf of my father and only stumbled across this site after investigating the story that he relayed to me. I surprisingly discovered that two other reports of a similar nature were posted for the same geographic region in roughly the same era.
On Thursday, April 1, 1965, my father was returning home from a Naval Reserve meeting in Hazleton, PA, on Rt. 93 in Nesquehoning, PA. While descending the grade of the hill coming into Nesquehoning, he noticed three (3) red lights in the sky that appeared to be hovering over the town itself. At first he thought they were the warning lights for the nearby radio station tower, but then realized that the radio tower was much farther to the southwest and probably not even visible from his location. The lights then moved northwest toward Rt. 54.
He returned home and didn’t say anything to anyone about the incident until the next morning when it was announced on the local radio station that several people in Shenandoah, PA, saw something similar.
While researching this incident I found two other reports of three lights in a triangular formation over Shenandoah in the early-1960s. The years were approximate on the other reports but the other information was identical: the evening of April 1. The other report states that the lights were seen over Shenandoah around 8:00 PM but the lights then headed east, which would have easily put the same lights over Nesquehoning around 10:30. The radio station report said that others in Shenandoah saw the lights around 10:45 PM, and Shenandoah could be made in 15 minutes by air from Nesquehoning.
Are they the same but changed color? I’m not sure because I wasn’t there but I can only pass along what he has relayed to me. He’s also a hardcore skeptic when it comes to UFOs. As he said to me: "I don’t believe in that UFO stuff, but I saw something that night and I don’t know what it was."
For me, the similarities with the location, dates, and times (8:00 to 10:30 PM) make the reports too similar to not be the same incident.
I’m writing this on behalf of my father and only stumbled across this site after investigating the story that he relayed to me. I surprisingly discovered that two other reports of a similar nature were posted for the same geographic region in roughly the same era.
On Thursday, April 1, 1965, my father was returning home from a Naval Reserve meeting in Hazleton, PA, on Rt. 93 in Nesquehoning, PA. While descending the grade of the hill coming into Nesquehoning, he noticed three (3) red lights in the sky that appeared to be hovering over the town itself. At first he thought they were the warning lights for the nearby radio station tower, but then realized that the radio tower was much farther to the southwest and probably not even visible from his location. The lights then moved northwest toward Rt. 54.
He returned home and didn’t say anything to anyone about the incident until the next morning when it was announced on the local radio station that several people in Shenandoah, PA, saw something similar.
While researching this incident I found two other reports of three lights in a triangular formation over Shenandoah in the early-1960s. The years were approximate on the other reports but the other information was identical: the evening of April 1. The other report states that the lights were seen over Shenandoah around 8:00 PM but the lights then headed east, which would have easily put the same lights over Nesquehoning around 10:30. The radio station report said that others in Shenandoah saw the lights around 10:45 PM, and Shenandoah could be made in 15 minutes by air from Nesquehoning.
Are they the same but changed color? I’m not sure because I wasn’t there but I can only pass along what he has relayed to me. He’s also a hardcore skeptic when it comes to UFOs. As he said to me: "I don’t believe in that UFO stuff, but I saw something that night and I don’t know what it was."
For me, the similarities with the location, dates, and times (8:00 to 10:30 PM) make the reports too similar to not be the same incident.
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Occurred : 4/1/1965 22:30 (Entered as : 04/01/65 22:30) Reported: 7/30/2011 12:11:00 AM 00:11 Posted: 8/7/2011 Location: Nesquehoning, PA Shape: Triangle Duration: 1 minute Characteristics: There were lights on the object
3 lights in a triangle over Nesquehoning, PA; also reported over Shenandoah, PA - April 1, 1965