UFOMYST
CaseDisk1947

Saranac Lake, NY, USA

6-7 Disc shaped objects. ((REPORT FROM: BRIAN VIKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.))

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (24 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-08-12
Where
Saranac Lake, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
approx:6 minutes
Geo
44.330, -74.131 · exact
Slug
disk-over-saranac-lake-ny-1947-e11072
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    The Summer of the Saucers

    United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)

    Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Saranac Lake, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 3 sightings in 1947.
  • Disk sightings ran at 27.3% during the 1940s (archive average: 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.