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E-006202LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
RB-47 Multi-Channel Radar-Visual Encounter (1957)
July 17, 1957Mississippi-Louisiana-Texas-Oklahoma flight corridor, South-Central United States, United States
Hynek summarizes the RB-47 case as a roughly 1.5-hour, more-than-700-mile encounter involving six Air Force officers. An intensely luminous object was reported visually, followed by ground radar, and detected by onboard ECM equipment, with several simultaneous appearances and disappearances across the independent channels.
// LINKED CLASSIFICATIONS:Scientific & Observational Types(P-000101)→
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
100% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
2 SOURCES · 2 PRIMARY
Date documented
July 17, 1957
Location documented
Mississippi-Louisiana-Texas-Oklahoma flight corridor, South-Central United States, United States
Map coordinates available
Coordinate precision: approximate.
Catalogue classification linked
1 family link(s), 1 case-specific component(s).
Published citation-backed claims
4 encounter-target claim(s), 12 component claim(s).
Source coverage
2 unique source edition(s); 2 marked primary for at least one claim.
Assessment has encounter-level provenance
4 encounter-target published claim(s) can carry assessment provenance.
// ASSESSMENT METADATA
Stored case-assessment fields
Stored total witness estimate6
Stored verified-report count6
Instrumental evidence flagYES
Official investigation flagYES
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COORDINATE PRECISION: APPROXIMATE