CaseLight1948
Ritzville, WA, USA
By car to Prescott, AZ. We were crossing a desert (I can still see the whole picture) when to our R, we saw a light rise.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1948-06-15
- Where
- Ritzville, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~3 minutes
- Geo
- 47.128, -118.380 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ritzville-wa-1948-e6664f
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Ritzville, WA.
- This case is one of 1 Washington reports filed in 1948.
- Light craft made up 5.8% of 1940s reports, vs 20.3% 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.