UFOMYST
CaseSphere1952

Tacoma, WA, USA

6 spheres flying in formation over military base in Tacoma Wash. the size of 747's.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-07-05
Where
Tacoma, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 MINUTES
Geo
47.253, -122.444 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-tacoma-wa-1952-c935bf
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 —…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Tacoma, WA has 197 sightings on file here.
  • 1952 brought 7 reports from Washington.
  • The 1950s skewed 5.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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