CaseDisk1952
Fukuoka (Japan), Japan
UFO seen by multiple U. S. military personnel; F-86 intercept.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-10-01
- Where
- Fukuoka (Japan), Japan
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- about 20 mins
- Geo
- 33.600, 130.417 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-fukuoka-japan-1952-75aa02
Wave
Part of a wave
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 —…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Fukuoka (Japan), Japan in the UFOMYST archive.
- Japan logged 1 sightings in 1952.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
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.