CaseDisk1952

New York City (Bronx), NY, USA

We were flying kites on the roof when someone yelled look at that.A disk was(approx.the size of a dime at arms length) was sitting in t

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-06-30
Where
New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.714, -74.006 · exact
Slug
disk-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1952-b2ad48
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    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

  • New York City (Bronx), NY shows up 100 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from New York in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 28.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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