CaseFlash1956
Tulsa, OK, USA
Witnesses reported a mysterious flash of light seen over Tulsa, Oklahoma and as far away as Dallas and Kansas City, lasting three to five minutes in June 1956.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-15
- Where
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 TO 5 MINS.
- Geo
- 36.154, -95.993 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-tulsa-ok-1956-4ae4cc
In context
- Tulsa, OK has 176 sightings on file here.
- 1956 brought 2 reports from Oklahoma.
- The 1950s skewed 0.2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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