UFOMYST
CaseCigar1952

Smithson's Valley, TX, USA

2,500 long cigar shaped object hovered over a hill for about 20-minutes.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-08-15
Where
Smithson's Valley, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
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Slug
cigar-over-smithson-s-valley-tx-1952-2e61f8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    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 —…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Smithson's Valley, TX.
  • This case is one of 4 Texas reports filed in 1952.
  • Cigar craft made up 7.3% of 1950s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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