Los Alamos, NM, USA
A witness reported a disk-shaped object hovering over Los Alamos, New Mexico during the development of the atomic bomb, observed for more than an hour in June 1944.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1944-06-01
- Where
- Los Alamos, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1+ Hour
- Geo
- 35.888, -106.307 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-los-alamos-nm-1944-9f1802
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In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Los Alamos, NM.
- This case is one of 2 New Mexico reports filed in 1944.
- Disk craft made up 27.3% of 1940s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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