CaseDisk1954
Stanford Campus, CA, USA
Civil Defense plane spotter reports UFO sighting at Stanford University
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.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-04-01
- Where
- Stanford Campus, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-stanford-campus-ca-1954-9161ec
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 1 reports logged in Stanford Campus, CA.
- This case is one of 12 California reports filed in 1954.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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