URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

AUGUST 3, 1965, DOEHLERS BEACH, PENNSYLVANIA, USA, DOUG KONOPKA AND TIM DIETZ:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

It seems that a NICAP ufologist, Louis Spizarny, reported that at the beach of Doehler or Doehlers, in North-East Pennsylvania, on August 3, 1965, at 10:30 a.m., two boys, Doug Konopka, 9, and Tim Dietz, 8, on holiday with their families, went along a road in a wooden area when they saw a disc shaped of "dirty white" color, 15 feet in diameter, with a transparent dome, 50 feet away.

Close to it was a small figure with yellow eyes, approximately 4.5 feet tall, and inside the dome, there another moving figure was visible.

Scared, the boys fled; then they heard a "swishing" noise and saw a round object rising above the top of the trees and fly out of sight above the lake.

Basic information table:

Case number:	URECAT-000710
Date of event:	August 3, 1965
Earliest report of event:	Not known.
Delay of report:	Days, decades?
Witness reported via:	Not known.
First alleged record by:	NICAP ufologist.
First certain record by:	Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:	NICAP ufologist.
First certain record type:	Ufology book.
This file created on:	June 20, 2008
This file last updated on:	June 20, 2008
Country of event:	USA
State/Department:	Pennsylvania
Type of location:	Road in wooden area near lake.
Lighting conditions:	Day
UFO observed:	Yes
UFO arrival observed:	Not reported.
UFO departure observed:	Yes
UFO/Entity Relation:	Certain
Witnesses numbers:	1 or 2
Witnesses ages:	8 and 9
Witnesses types:	Not reported. Young boys.
Photograph(s):	No.
Witnesses drawing:	No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:	No.

Number of entities:	2
Type of entities:	Not reported.
Entities height:	1.40 meters
Entities outfit type:	Not reported.
Entities outfit color:	Not reported.
Entities skin color:	Not reported.
Entities body:	Not reported.
Entities head:	Not reported.
Entities eyes:	Yellow.
Entities mouth:	Not reported.
Entities nose:	Not reported.
Entities feet:	Not reported.
Entities arms:	Not reported.
Entities fingers:	Not reported.
Entities fingers number:	Not reported.
Entities hair:	Not reported.
Entities voice:	None heard.
Entities actions:	One was in UFO, one near it.
Entities/witness interactions:	None.
Witness(es) reactions:	Observed, fled.
Witness(es) feelings:	Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation:	Not reported.
Explanation category:	Extraterrestrial beings or invention. Insufficient information.
Explanation certainty:	None.

Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in North East Pennsylvania, on August 3, 1965, at 1030 a.m., two boys, Doug Knopka, 9, and Tim Dietz 8, vacationing at Doehler's Beach with their families, were walking along a wooded road when they saw a "dirty white" disc shaped object 15 ft in diameter, with a transparent dome, 50 ft away. Beside it was a small figure with yellow eyes about 4.5 ft tall, and inside the dome another moving figure was visible. Frightened, the boys ran from the spot; then they heard a "swishing" sound and saw a round object rise over the treetops and disappear from sight out over the lake.

Albert Rosales indicates as source "Louis Spizarny for Nicap."

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on August 3, 1965, at 10:30, in Doehlers Beach, Pennsylvania, USA, there was a close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants, by two witnesses called Dietz and Konopka on a road briefly.

The sources are indicated as Webb, David, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports; Bloecher, Ted R., Ted R Bloecher investigation files.

Points to consider:

It would have been nice to have more information on this sighting of apparently high strangeness. The witnesses, however, are quite young, and no comment is offered as of the credibility that should or shouldn't be granted to the report.

List of issues:

Id:	Topic:	Severity:	Date noted:	Raised by:	Noted by:	Description:	Proposal:	Status:
1	Data	Severe	June 20, 2008	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Primary source not availavle and not correctly referenced.	Help needed.	Opened.
2	Ufology	Severe	June 20, 2008	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	No investigation report available.	Help needed.	Opened.
3	Ufology	Severe	June 20, 2008	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Very young witness or witnesses.	-	-
3	Ufology	Severe	June 20, 2008	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Insufficient description of entities, only a height and the eyes color is given.	Help needed.	Opened.
4	Ufology	Severe	June 20, 2008	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Nature of report not know: letter, newspaper, interview, field investigation...?	Help needed.	Opened.

Evaluation:

Extraterrestrial beings or invention. Insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

[---] ? Louis Spizarny, NICAP, USA.
[---] ? "HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports", compiled by David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, CUFOS, USA, circa 1977.
[ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml
[ud1] * "3 Aug 1965 - Doehlers Beach, Pennsylvania, USA", web page by the website UFOdna, circa 2008, at ufodna.com/uf06/uf4/064227.htm

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version:	Created/Changed By:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	June 20, 2008	Creation, [ar1], [ud1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	June 20, 2008	First published.

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