Portage County police chase
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Portage County Courthouse, Ravenna, Ohio
Ravenna, Ohio, the county seat from which deputies Spaur and Neff began their 17 April 1966 pursuit of a bright object into Pennsylvania. Location photograph · context.
JonRidinger · 2009 ↗CC BY 3.0Licence terms ↗Jesse Michels · 1:56:19
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedBefore dawn on 17 April 1966 Portage County, Ohio deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a bright disc-shaped object across the state line into Pennsylvania at high speed, joined by other officers. Project Blue Book attributed it to a satellite and Venus. In the corpus the host summarizes it as a 90-minute, 86-mile chase.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 41.1500, -81.3600 approximate · United States |
| Official response | Project Blue Book (Maj Hector Quintanilla) concluded the officers had chased the Echo satellite and then Venus; Rep. William Stanton criticised the finding after Spaur and the other officers rejected it. |
Reported by
- dale spaur law-enforcement Portage County deputy sheriff
- wilbur neff law-enforcement deputy
Investigated by
- project blue book military
- william weitzel researcher
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 1:56:19 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ▶ 2025
Mentioned in the corpus
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UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 1:56:19 ▶ Jesse Michels
Portage County, uh law enforcement officers chase a large metallic disc-like object for 90 minutes going 86 miles. um
- 1:56:19 ▶ interview
- 1:56:19 ▶ Jesse Michels
On the map
Portage County police chase, Condon Report and the closing of Project Blue Book. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 1:56:19 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
Portage County, uh law enforcement officers chase a large metallic disc-like object for 90 minutes going 86 miles. um
- Portage County UFO chase