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
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
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.