CaseFlash1978
Tennyson, TX, USA
Astonishingly fast moving light.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-10
- Where
- Tennyson, TX, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 31.742, -100.286 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-tennyson-tx-1978-82adf4
Wave
Part of a wave
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The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Tennyson, TX.
- This case is one of 25 Texas reports filed in 1978.
- Flash craft made up 0.5% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.