Litchfield, PA, USA
In July 1952, witnesses near Litchfield, Pennsylvania observed an unidentified aerial object for about five minutes, later saying they were unsure what they had seen.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-07-15
- Where
- Litchfield, PA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.968, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-litchfield-pa-1952-847bf9
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Litchfield, PA.
- This case is one of 4 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1952.
- Other craft made up 6.1% of 1950s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.