CaseFlash1983
Pittsburg, KS, USA
A large lightening bolt appeared to come out of a white truck horizontally and strike a power pole.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-07-01
- Where
- Pittsburg, KS, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 37.411, -94.705 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-pittsburg-ks-1983-ff3b6a
In context
- Pittsburg, KS shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Kansas in 1983.
- In the 1980s, 0.6% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.