THE Territorial Enterprise newspaper (Virginia City, Nevada) reported to the Deseret News of Jan. 19, 1870, that on December 29, area residents saw three bright lights in the sky, "presenting the appearance of large stars." And, after several minutes, the three lights merged into one body. It then moved off in a northwesterly direction and was out of sight in several minutes. This sighting followed an earthquake that shook the city.
(Back in the 1850s, this area was part of Utah territory, but Nevada's boundaries took hold in 1861.)
This could have been the first UFO sighting in the western United States.
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