UFOMYST
CaseOval1952

Arlington, VA, USA

Witnesses in the Arlington, Virginia area reported a green oval-shaped object circling silently over the Washington, D.C. region for about 20 minutes in July 1952.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (163 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-07-13
Where
Arlington, VA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 min
Geo
38.881, -77.104 · exact
Slug
oval-over-arlington-va-1952-dd2c00
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    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 —…

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In context

  • This is one of 44 reports logged in Arlington, VA.
  • This case is one of 2 Virginia reports filed in 1952.
  • Oval craft made up 6.1% of 1950s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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