CaseFireball1953
Midwest City, OK, USA
A witness in Midwest City, Oklahoma reported a ball of yellow light with flickering spikes around its edge, one of which seemed to reach toward the observer, over 15 minutes in April 1953.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-04-15
- Where
- Midwest City, OK, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 35.450, -97.397 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-midwest-city-ok-1953-0e1b33
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Midwest City, OK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oklahoma logged 1 sightings in 1953.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1950s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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