CaseLight1952

Vicksburg, AL, USA

The object moved in an erratic motion.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-06-15
Where
Vicksburg, AL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
32.353, -90.878 · fallback
Slug
light-over-vicksburg-al-1952-f850f4
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

  • Vicksburg, AL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Alabama in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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