CaseDisk1952

Peterborough (Canada), ON, Canada

a dark object came down out of the dark cloud, leveled off and shot up through the cloud

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-08-15
Where
Peterborough (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Disk
Duration
Geo
44.300, -78.316 · exact
Slug
disk-over-peterborough-canada-on-1952-cb4526
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    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

  • Peterborough (Canada), Canada shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Canada in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 28.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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