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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