Oakmont, PA, USA
a very brillant blue-white object coming towards us lowering above us and hovering over us a few minutes before shooting straight up
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-13
- Where
- Oakmont, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- approx.10 min.
- Geo
- 40.522, -79.842 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-oakmont-pa-1947-ab155f
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
- Oakmont, PA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1947.
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.