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
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
- 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 daysReport
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