CaseDisk1952

Patchogue, NY, USA

A witness in Patchogue, New York reported a large, gold, disk-shaped object over a water tower, observed for about 10 minutes in 1952.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 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
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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.

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