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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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.