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
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.