CaseUnknown1952
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31625-2002Jul19.html
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-07-17
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- long
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-washington-d-c-dc-1952-2013e1
Wave
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
- This is one of 109 reports logged in Washington, D.C., DC.
- This case is one of 1 District of Columbia reports filed in 1952.
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.