CaseDisk1951
Johnstown, PA, USA
My late father, a WWII veteran, saw a UFO along with many other people while a worker on a local railroad in 1951.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1951-06-30
- Where
- Johnstown, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes?
- Geo
- 40.327, -78.922 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-johnstown-pa-1951-f79f20
In context
- Johnstown, PA has 35 sightings on file here.
- 1951 brought 2 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1950s skewed 28.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.