Chester, PA, USA
My parents & I & my brother were walking to a resturant & we saw 4 flying objects flying in formation. My father called out to two wom
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-06-22
- Where
- Chester, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 39.848, -75.358 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chester-pa-1952-cefdaf
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
- Chester, PA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1952.
- In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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