CaseLight1958
Mississippi (rural), MS, USA
In 1958, a witness in rural Mississippi reported a bright light pacing their car before speeding off at extreme velocity, an encounter lasting about six minutes.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-12-18
- Where
- Mississippi (rural), MS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 30.382, -89.044 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mississippi-rural-ms-1958-eac64e
In context
- Mississippi (rural), MS has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1958 brought 1 reports from Mississippi.
- The 1950s skewed 11.5% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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