Mount Vernon, WA, USA
A witness in Mount Vernon, Washington reported a cigar-shaped object in the sky for about three minutes in October 1952; few further details were recorded.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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.
- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (155 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-10-15
- Where
- Mount Vernon, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 48.421, -122.334 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-mount-vernon-wa-1952-97d748
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
United States, focal point Washington D.C.
The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…
In context
- Mount Vernon, WA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1952 brought 7 reports from Washington.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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