Henrietta (south of; Route 66), OK, USA
A witness south of Henrietta, Oklahoma, near Route 66, reported a bright light lasting about 30 seconds in the sky in August 1947.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-08-12
- Where
- Henrietta (south of; Route 66), OK, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.059, -77.612 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-henrietta-south-of-route-66-ok-1947-f3b928
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In context
- Henrietta (south of; Route 66), OK has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1947 brought 2 reports from Oklahoma.
- The 1940s skewed 5.8% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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