Dayton (Wright-Patterson AFB), OH, USA
This is the recollection of my father, who is 92 years old and lives in an assisted living facility outside Washington DC.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-10-01
- Where
- Dayton (Wright-Patterson AFB), OH, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Days
- Geo
- 39.759, -84.192 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-dayton-wright-patterson-afb-oh-1947-522a52
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Dayton (Wright-Patterson AFB), OH.
- This case is one of 3 Ohio reports filed in 1947.
Report
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