CaseDisk1952
Patchogue, NY, USA
Large gold saucer seen over water tower in 1950s. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-06-30
- Where
- Patchogue, NY, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.766, -73.015 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-patchogue-ny-1952-e5f9e1
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Patchogue, NY.
- This case is one of 4 New York reports filed in 1952.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.