CaseDisk1952
Prairie Grove, AR, USA
Two observers saw silverish 30 foot disk maneuver above and below horizon at hover and supersonic speeds.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-08-15
- Where
- Prairie Grove, AR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 00:20
- Geo
- 35.976, -94.318 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-prairie-grove-ar-1952-0b1d50
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
- Prairie Grove, AR has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1952 brought 1 reports from Arkansas.
- The 1950s skewed 28.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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