Hand-drawn map of the Exeter incident sightings, from Project Blue Book archivesĪfter reaching Kensington, a few miles outside Exeter, Muscarello noticed five flashing bright red lights in the distance, which he initially believed to be the lights of a police car or fire engine. Since he did not own a car, Muscarello would hitchhike to and from Amesbury however, at that hour of the morning there was little traffic on the highway, and Muscarello had walked a good part of the distance. He had been visiting his girlfriend at her parents' home in nearby Amesbury, Massachusetts, around 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Exeter. Muscarello had graduated from high school the previous June and was three weeks away from leaving for service in the United States Navy. On September 3, 1965, at approximately 2:00 a.m., 18-year-old Norman Muscarello was hitchhiking to his home in Exeter along New Hampshire Route 150.

In 2011, Skeptical Inquirer offered an explanation of the incident, based on details reported by the eyewitnesses. Although several separate sightings had been made in the area by numerous witnesses in the weeks leading up to the specific incident, it was the September 3 sighting which eventually became by far the most famous, involving a local teenager and two police officers. The Exeter incident or Incident at Exeter was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965, approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring town of Kensington. Class=notpageimage| Location of Kensington, New Hampshire

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