CaseLight1949
Lackland AFB, TX, USA
Witnesses at Lackland AFB, Texas reported lights racing across the sky and making sharp 90-degree turns, observed for one to two hours in October 1949.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (151 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1949-10-10
- Where
- Lackland AFB, TX, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 hrs
- Geo
- 29.387, -98.618 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-lackland-afb-tx-1949-40d3c7
In context
- Lackland AFB, TX has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1949 brought 4 reports from Texas.
- The 1940s skewed 5.8% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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