CaseFireball1958
Thibodaux, LA, USA
Historical Sighting I have related this many times, but never committed it to writing until now. I was motivated to write this by the
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-06-30
- Where
- Thibodaux, LA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 29.796, -90.823 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-thibodaux-la-1958-67ecc7
In context
- Thibodaux, LA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1958 brought 1 reports from Louisiana.
- The 1950s skewed 3.9% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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