Puyallup, WA, USA
A driver near Puyallup, Washington reported an oval-shaped object hovering above the treetops just ahead on the road, for a few seconds in August 1954.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (151 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-08-15
- Where
- Puyallup, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- a few seconds
- Geo
- 47.185, -122.293 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-puyallup-wa-1954-4cad18
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- This is one of 85 reports logged in Puyallup, WA.
- This case is one of 1 Washington reports filed in 1954.
- Oval craft made up 6.1% of 1950s reports, vs 4.3% 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.