E-006204DATE PRECISION: yearRECORD COMPLETENESS: 43%

Portage County Police Close Encounter and Pursuit (1966)

Name: Portage County Police Close Encounter and Pursuit (1966)
Start: 1966; the exact calendar date is not stated in the extracted Chapter 8 passage
Location: Portage County to Conway pursuit corridor, United States

1966; the exact calendar date is not stated in the extracted Chapter 8 passagePortage County to Conway pursuit corridor, Ohio / Pennsylvania, United States

Multiple police officers sequentially reported a brilliant low-altitude object during a pursuit from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hynek uses the case as a representative Close Encounter of the First Kind and sharply criticizes Project Blue Book's Venus/satellite explanation and limited initial interviewing.

// PROVENANCE COVERAGE

43% record completeness

This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.

0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY

Date documented

1966; the exact calendar date is not stated in the extracted Chapter 8 passage

Location documented

Portage County to Conway pursuit corridor, Ohio / Pennsylvania, United States

Map coordinates available

No latitude/longitude is available for mapping.

Catalogue classification linked

1 family link(s), 0 case-specific component(s).

Published citation-backed claims

0 encounter-target claim(s), 0 component claim(s).

Source coverage

0 unique source edition(s); 0 marked primary for at least one claim.

Assessment has encounter-level provenance

Assessment fields exist, but no encounter-target published citation-backed claim currently supports them.

Assessment values are present without encounter-target published citation-backed claims. Treat the matrix as unprovenanced metadata until direct claims are added.

Witness totals are stored, but no encounter-level cited claim currently documents where those numbers came from.

// ASSESSMENT METADATA

Stored case-assessment fields

DIRECT PROVENANCE INCOMPLETE

Stored total witness estimate4

Stored verified-report count4

Instrumental evidence flagNO

Official investigation flagYES

These stored assessment values are shown transparently but should not be treated as source-backed facts until encounter-target claims cite their provenance.