Mount Spokane, Washington, 1952 — the landed craft and its occupants, as described in UFONS #220.
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1952: Mount Spokane, Washington — The Domed Disc and Silvery Occupants
Skidding logs with his horse on Mount Spokane, a Washington woodsman watched a domed, windowed disc settle onto three metal legs in the brush ahead of him, a rush of wind announcing its arrival before a long ramp lowered and three men in shining silver coveralls walked down it — human in every way except the language they spoke, and the unmistakable interest they took in his terrified horse.
Date: 1952 (exact date not recorded)
Sighting Time: Not recorded
Day/Night: Day
Location: Mount Spokane, Washington
Urban or Rural: Rural
No. of Entity(‘s): 3
Entity Type: Humanoid
Entity Description: Very human in appearance, wearing shiny, silvery coveralls; spoke an unrecognized language
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter of the Third Kind) — close observation with animate beings associated with the object
Duration: Not recorded
No. of Object(s): 1
Size of Object(s): Not recorded
Distance to Object(s): Close enough that the witness’s horse reacted with fear and the occupants took visible interest in it; exact distance not recorded
Shape of Object(s): A domed, disc-shaped object with windows, resting on three metallic legs
Color of Object(s): Not recorded
Number of Witnesses: 1 (name not recorded)
Special Features/Characteristics: The object’s landing was accompanied by a strong rush of wind. A long ramp descended from the craft, and three human-looking men in silvery coveralls emerged and walked down it. They spoke in an unrecognized language and showed specific interest in the witness’s horse, which was visibly frightened throughout the encounter.
Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single, unnamed witness account preserved only through a UFO newsletter citation, with no independent corroboration, physical evidence, or second witness on record
Source: UFONS (UFO Newsclipping Service) #220
Summary/Description: While skidding logs on Mount Spokane, Washington, with his horse in 1952, an unnamed witness saw a domed, disc-shaped object with windows land in nearby brush on three metallic legs, accompanied by a strong rush of wind. A long ramp descended, and three men wearing shiny, silvery coveralls walked down it. The men appeared very human, spoke in an unrecognized language, and took particular interest in the witness’s horse, which acted frightened throughout the encounter.
Related Cases: Not Applicable
Detailed Report
The Mount Spokane case survives in a compact but physically specific form: a landing gear detail (three metal legs), a described boarding mechanism (a ramp), and a consistent physical description of the occupants (human-looking, silver coveralls) that together read as a coherent single account rather than a loosely assembled composite. The case reaches this archive through UFONS, the UFO Newsclipping Service, a period compilation newsletter rather than a formal investigative body — meaning the account’s chain of custody runs through a secondary clipping source rather than a direct field investigation with a named researcher attached.
The witness’s horse is the case’s most distinctive corroborating detail: a frightened animal reacting to something in the environment is, at minimum, evidence that the witness experienced something startling in the moment, even though an animal’s fear response cannot itself confirm what specifically caused it. The entities’ reported interest in the horse is a detail this archive does not attempt to interpret beyond stating it as reported.
No name is recorded for the witness, no second observer is mentioned, and no physical trace — landing marks, disturbed brush, anything beyond the account itself — survives in the sourcing available to this archive.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
Mount Spokane, Washington — 1952 and an Anonymous Single-Witness Landing
- An anonymous witness, secondhand source: Neither the witness’s name nor a direct investigative source is preserved — the account reaches this archive only through a newsletter clipping service, which limits how far it can be independently verified.
- A frightened animal is suggestive, not conclusive: The horse’s fear is a genuine physical detail worth noting, but it corroborates that the witness experienced something alarming, not the specific content of what he described seeing.
- Physically specific but internally unverifiable: Details like the three-legged landing gear and the descending ramp give the account real texture, but with no second witness or physical trace, none of it can be checked against anything beyond the witness’s own telling.
- A recognizable landed-craft template: Domed disc, ramp, human-looking silver-suited occupants — this case fits a common pattern in 1950s American landing reports, which is worth noting as context without treating pattern-fit as evidence either for or against the account’s accuracy.
What’s left of that day on Mount Spokane is one man’s account, one frightened horse, and a craft that came and went on three metal legs, leaving nothing else behind for anyone to check.
“The men looked very human and spoke in an unknown language.”
— Witness account, as recorded in UFONS #220
