CaseDisk1954

Orchard Park, NY, USA

Observed small gray disk.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1954-06-15
Where
Orchard Park, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.768, -78.744 · exact
Slug
disk-over-orchard-park-ny-1954-4ae396
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1954

    The Great French Wave

    France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America

    The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…

In context

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in Orchard Park, NY.
  • This case is one of 7 New York reports filed in 1954.
  • Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% 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.