CaseLight1956
Tripoli (Libya), Libya
USAF personnel at Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli, Libya reported lights as bright as Mars in the sky on several consecutive nights in June 1956.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (143 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-15
- Where
- Tripoli (Libya), Libya
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- several days!
- Geo
- 32.887, 13.187 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tripoli-libya-1956-068cb3
Don't stop here
Next caseLight · Tripoli (Libya), Libyasame light · 0 kmContinue the trail
One more hop — same place, same craft, or the next signal on the graph.
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Tripoli (Libya), Libya in the UFOMYST archive.
- Libya logged 1 sightings in 1956.
- Light sightings ran at 11.5% during the 1950s (archive average: 20.3%).
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.
End of report
Keep going
One more hop — same place, same craft, or the next signal on the graph.