CaseOval1952

Auburn, WA, USA

Early nighttime sighting of huge oval object for 1 minute.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-06-30
Where
Auburn, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
47.307, -122.228 · exact
Slug
oval-over-auburn-wa-1952-05d21c
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 —…

In context

  • Auburn, WA has 104 sightings on file here.
  • 1952 brought 7 reports from Washington.
  • The 1950s skewed 6.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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