CaseDisk1962
Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
Witnesses in Cardiff, Wales reported a large, round, saucer-shaped object with revolving lights in the middle in November 1962, in a sighting that lasted about five minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-11-15
- Where
- Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 51.480, -3.180 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-cardiff-uk-wales-1962-343c0c
In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 3 United Kingdom reports filed in 1962.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.