Claymont, DE, USA
It was just before noon on a warm sunny June day, I was 16 yrs old. Riding in the car with my brother-inlaw driving, my sister riding
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-15
- Where
- Claymont, DE, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 secs
- Geo
- 39.801, -75.460 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-claymont-de-1954-acac60
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
- One of 6 documented reports from Claymont, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Delaware logged 1 sightings in 1954.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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