CaseOther1947

Gackle, ND, USA

Alien hawk sighted in North Dakota

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-06-15
Where
Gackle, ND, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
aprox. 1 hour
Geo
46.626, -99.142 · exact
Slug
other-over-gackle-nd-1947-402c80
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…

In context

  • Gackle, ND has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1947 brought 1 reports from North Dakota.
  • The 1940s skewed 7.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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