CaseUnknown1947
Minden, LA, USA
High altitude sighting in 1947
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-01
- Where
- Minden, LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 32.615, -93.287 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-minden-la-1947-d5bcc7
Wave
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Minden, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 1 sightings in 1947.
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.