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

  • 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 —…

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

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