UFOMYST
CaseCircle1952

Philadelphia, PA, USA

saucers in a line over Phila Pa.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-09-09
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
circle-over-philadelphia-pa-1952-083412
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 —…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 10% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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