CaseFireball1947
Corpus Christi, TX, USA
1947 fireball incident in space.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-09
- Where
- Corpus Christi, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 27.801, -97.396 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-corpus-christi-tx-1947-7246d0
Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- One of 81 documented reports from Corpus Christi, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
- Texas logged 2 sightings in 1947.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.2% during the 1940s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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