CaseOval1953

Kelso (Cowlitz Co. hills), WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Kelso (Cowlitz Co. hills), WA, USA
Start: 1953-06-30
Location: Kelso (Cowlitz Co. hills), WA, USA

Local residents near Kelso, Washington reported three oval-shaped objects in the sky for about five minutes in June 1953; the sighting reportedly remains unexplained.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (166 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1953-06-30
Where: Kelso (Cowlitz Co. hills), WA, USA
Shape: Oval
Duration: 5 min.
Geo: 46.147, -122.908 · exact
Slug: oval-over-kelso-cowlitz-co-hills-wa-1953-f4c47c

In context

Kelso (Cowlitz Co. hills), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
3 reports came from Washington in 1953.
In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

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