Portage County Police UFO Chase
- Event date
- 1966 Apr 17
- Location
- Portage County, Ohio, USA
- Country
- United States
Record summary
Deputy sheriffs chased a luminous, structured object for 85 miles across the Pennsylvania border at over 100 mph, with police from other jurisdictions joining the pursuit. The object appeared to respond intelligently to the chase. This case inspired the UFO chase in Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'