CaseDisk1947

Yokahama (Japan), Japan

A witness in Yokohama, Japan reported a flying disk-shaped object in the sky after World War II, observed for about 30 minutes in January 1947.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (143 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-01-15
Where
Yokahama (Japan), Japan
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
Slug
disk-over-yokahama-japan-1947-d6b142
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    The Summer of the Saucers

    United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)

    Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Yokahama (Japan), Japan.
  • This case is one of 1 Japan reports filed in 1947.
  • Disk craft made up 27.3% of 1940s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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