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The Portage County UFO Chase: Or How Defense Intelligence Created a Monster

The Portage County UFO Chase: Or How Defense Intelligence Created a Monster

Kishbucher, Michael

Hardcover

UFOs & Extraterrestrials20th Century United States HistoryRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $34.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 1540299139
ISBN13: 9781540299130
Publisher: History Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

An enduring feedback loop where belief masquerades as evidence and credibility becomes collateral damage.

In April 1966, police officers in rural Ohio and western Pennsylvania chased a glowing object across eighty miles of back roads. The encounter--silent, blinding, and seemingly intelligent--became one of the most famous UFO cases in American history and helped inspire the opening scenes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But the mystery didn't end when the lights vanished. Drawing on primary sources, official records, and personal experience, this book traces how a single night's events were transformed into lasting folklore--shaped not just by witnesses and the media, but by the U.S. military's own investigative machinery. Rather than merely asking what the police chased, a more unsettling question is asked here: how did government involvement, belief, and mistrust combine to create a self-perpetuating legend that still echoes today?

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