USA
Father US Air Force flew a UFO in 1947. ((NUFORC Note: Date of reported incident is approximate, and arbitrarily assigned. PD))
Report quality: Low36/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-30
- Where
- USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-1947-1e51fa
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- 1947 brought 1 reports from USA.
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.