Maple Valley, WA, USA
((HOAX)) (the ufo's that spooked kenneth arnold in 1947 havent gone anywhere....infact they are quite pleasent to interact with.
Report quality: Low15/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 1947
- Where
- Maple Valley, WA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 4 years
- Geo
- 47.393, -122.046 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-maple-valley-wa-1947-d5b363
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- This is one of 26 reports logged in Maple Valley, WA.
- This case is one of 5 Washington reports filed in 1947.
- Changing craft made up 0.6% of 1940s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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