Smithson's Valley, TX, USA
A witness near Smithson's Valley, Texas reported an enormous cigar-shaped object, estimated at roughly 2,500 feet long, hovering over a hill for 20 to 30 minutes in August 1952.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (177 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-08-15
- Where
- Smithson's Valley, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20-30 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-smithson-s-valley-tx-1952-2e61f8
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Smithson's Valley, TX.
- This case is one of 4 Texas reports filed in 1952.
- Cigar craft made up 7.3% of 1950s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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