Wilmington, CA, USA
Witnesses in Wilmington, California reported three disk-shaped objects that appeared suddenly, hovered, darted forward, hovered again, then vanished within one to two minutes in July 1952.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-07-15
- Where
- Wilmington, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.780, -118.263 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-wilmington-ca-1952-0dd2be
Part of a wave
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
- One of 20 documented reports from Wilmington, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 7 sightings in 1952.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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