Exeter incident
- Date
- 3 Sep 1965
- Place
- Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
- Record
- Curated case
- Assessment
- Contested
- Evidence strength
What was reported
At about 2 a.m., teenager Norman Muscarello saw a silent group of pulsing red lights hovering over a field near Route 150 and ran to the Exeter police; patrolman Eugene Bertrand returned with him and both, then officer David Hunt, saw the lights rise over the trees. Project Blue Book first attributed it to stars and planets and to aircraft from a large Air Force exercise that night, then changed the listing to unidentified after the officers objected that the exercise had ended. John Fuller's book made it famous. A 2011 analysis in Skeptical Inquirer proposed the strobe lights of an aerial-refuelling aircraft.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
Project Blue Book: unidentified (revised from an exercise-aircraft explanation)
Strongest ordinary reading
Aircraft lights, possibly an aerial-refuelling tanker's, proposed; not established
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- Yes: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- Yes: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- Yes: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- Yes: Silent
Videos that discuss it
Claims and verdicts
- Unverified
Multiple named historical cases (1947 Weather Bureau discs, Portland 1947, New Mexico 1947, Misawa Japan 1952, Southern California/Kelly Johnson, Exeter NH 1965, Westall Australia 1966, Beverly MA 1966, Malmstrom AFB, Portage County OH, Redlands CA 1968, Broad Haven UK, Ariel School Zimbabwe) each describe a metallic/silver disc wobbling, tilting, or oscillating on its edge.
You do see a consistency here, right?
Outside sources
- Wikipedia: Exeter incidenten.wikipedia.org
On the map
42.93° N, 70.95° W, plotted at the town or city
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