Canton, PA, USA
Large, silver-blue disc shaped oject which gave off high pitched sound and was slowly turning on its axis and then suddenly sped away.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-08-01
- Where
- Canton, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.656, -76.853 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-canton-pa-1954-605bf3
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- Canton, PA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1954 brought 4 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1950s skewed 28.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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