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  • What really hovered over a Kirkwood hayfield for over an hour?

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📰 News we're reading

• The freakiest UFO sightings in Pennsylvania history (keystonenewsroom.com) — A 1966 UFO report near Kirkwood in Lancaster County describes a massive, brightly lit object hovering over a hayfield for more than an hour, complete with humming sounds and radio static. That eerie encounter is one of several unexplained Pennsylvania sightings highlighted here, from famous cases like Kecksburg and Presque Isle to more recent triangular craft over Westmoreland County.
   

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