Richland, WA, USA
Witnesses in Richland, Washington reported seven large, luminous circular objects flying in a V formation at night in October 1952.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-10-15
- Where
- Richland, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 46.286, -119.284 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-richland-wa-1952-7b7597
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
- One of 44 documented reports from Richland, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 7 sightings in 1952.
- Circle sightings ran at 10% during the 1950s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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