CaseFireball1958
Pep, TX, USA
In 1958, witnesses near Pep, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, reported green fireballs streaking across the night sky, visible for only a few seconds.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (148 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-01-01
- Where
- Pep, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2sec
- Geo
- 33.816, -102.558 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pep-tx-1958-4e8603
In context
- Pep, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Texas in 1958.
- In the 1950s, 3.9% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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