Norridgewock, ME, USA
A witness in Norridgewock, Maine reported a low-flying, silent disk-shaped object seen in daylight from about 450 feet away for four to five minutes in September 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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-09-15
- Where
- Norridgewock, ME, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 4-5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 44.713, -69.791 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-norridgewock-me-1952-7ace9b
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 3 reports logged in Norridgewock, ME.
- This case is one of 1 Maine reports filed in 1952.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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