Espanola (outside of), NM, USA
A witness near Espanola, New Mexico reported a saucer-shaped object about 10 feet in diameter, observed for about five minutes in June 1947.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (140 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-01
- Where
- Espanola (outside of), NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.991, -106.081 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-espanola-outside-of-nm-1947-1cb8a0
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Espanola (outside of), NM.
- This case is one of 4 New Mexico reports filed in 1947.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 1940s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.