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
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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