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UFO case file · UFO-4777

Greensburg entity encounter — August 27, 1973

CE3United States1973-08-27

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Greensburg entity encounter — August 27, 1973
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Greensburg entity encounter — August 27, 1973

Case description

The Beech Hill report near Greensburg concerns two claimed observations on the night of August 27,1973. A woman reportedly saw a large boomerang-shaped object hovering above a heavily wooded area. Her husband went outside to investigate and described encountering a large, hairy creature walking upright. Later summaries say its face appeared wolf-like. The husband allegedly fired at the figure without an apparent effect. The brief catalogue does not explain its subsequent departure or establish that it entered the aerial object. It also supplies no detailed dimensions, photographs or recovered material. The conjunction of the two reports is preserved, while a biological or technological relationship between the creature and object remains an interpretation. Paul Johnson and Joan Jeffers’s Pennsylvania Bigfoot material is cited in Rosales’s catalogue; the regional report list maintained by Pennsylvania researchers also preserves the date and Beech Hill location. Other nearby Bigfoot reports on the same date should not be merged into this encounter. The imported record additionally contained unrelated Ocala, Florida aircraft and light paragraphs from 1968, which are excluded here. The plate combines the wife’s and husband’s reported phases with a clear composite label and omits gunfire rather than inventing an injury.

Recorded details

Craft description
On this night a woman reported seeing a large boomerang shaped craft hovering over a heavily wooded area in Beech Hill.
Entity description
When her husband went out to investigate he encountered a large hairy, biped creature with a wolf-like face.
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

Case videos and witness interviews

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The film names Allan and Elsie Wainwright and places their home in Bensalem; Atlas sources place the report at Beech Hill near Greensburg. This locality conflict remains unresolved. Later names and dialogue are retelling details. Successive aerial and creature observations do not establish a witnessed boarding or biological connection.

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