Norfolk/Newport News (aboard ferry boat between), VA, USA
Best recall as a SUnday night. From east side of ferry boat spotted string of brilliant red balls that apeared to be diving into the s
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-06-01
- Where
- Norfolk/Newport News (aboard ferry boat between), VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 36.847, -76.285 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-norfolk-newport-news-aboard-ferry-boat-between-va-1952-3a6849
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
- Norfolk/Newport News (aboard ferry boat between), VA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Virginia in 1952.
- In the 1950s, 3.9% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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