Barksdale AFB (Shreveport), LA, USA
In 1952 I was stationed at Barksdale AFB in Shreveport La. about 6 AM this cigar shaped UFO, about 100 yds long, approached about 800
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-06-30
- Where
- Barksdale AFB (Shreveport), LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 32.497, -93.668 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-barksdale-afb-shreveport-la-1952-8de9d9
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
- Barksdale AFB (Shreveport), LA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1952 brought 1 reports from Louisiana.
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