UFOMYST
CaseDisk1945

Winston-Salem, NC, USA

I always thought this sighting should be on an official list, now, 60 yrs. later, it is.

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 (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1945-06-07
Where
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
seconds
Geo
36.100, -80.244 · exact
Slug
disk-over-winston-salem-nc-1945-3e327a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1944–1945

    The Foo Fighters

    European and Pacific theaters of WWII

    Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 48 documented reports from Winston-Salem, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 1 sightings in 1945.
  • Disk sightings ran at 27.3% during the 1940s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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