CaseTriangle1952
Jacksonville, FL, USA
extremely fast triangle shape object with one light on rear comes to a sudden stop, then seems to shoot out of sight
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-06-15
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-jacksonville-fl-1952-1123af
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 256 reports logged in Jacksonville, FL.
- This case is one of 6 Florida reports filed in 1952.
- Triangle craft made up 2.2% of 1950s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.