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Exeter and the Lights over Kensington Road

added01 September 2026

On the night of 3 September 1965 eighteen-year-old Norman Muscarello was walking along Route 150 outside Exeter when, he said, a large dark object with a row of bright red lights pulsing in sequence came over a field. He ran to the police station; Officer Eugene Bertrand drove back out with him and saw the same thing, and so did Officer David Hunt, who arrived after. The Air Force first attributed it to a Strategic Air Command exercise, which had ended an hour before the sighting. The case stayed in the Blue Book files as unexplained. Exeter is comfortable with it: since the 2010s the town has held a summer festival on the anniversary, with the takings going to the fire department.

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