Tacoma, WA, USA
A witness in Tacoma, Washington reported an unidentified object around the same time as the Maury Island incident and Kenneth Arnold's sighting, in June 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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (158 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-30
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-tacoma-wa-1947-5c78ed
Part of a wave
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 197 reports logged in Tacoma, WA.
- This case is one of 5 Washington reports filed in 1947.
- Other craft made up 7.1% of 1940s 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.