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E-006202DATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
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.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
July 17, 1957
Location documented
Mississippi-Louisiana-Texas-Oklahoma flight corridor, South-Central United States, United States
Map coordinates available
No latitude/longitude is available for mapping.
Catalogue classification linked
0 family link(s), 0 case-specific component(s).
Published citation-backed claims
0 encounter-target claim(s), 0 component claim(s).
Source coverage
0 unique source edition(s); 0 marked primary for at least one claim.
Assessment has encounter-level provenance
Assessment fields exist, but no encounter-target published citation-backed claim currently supports them.
Assessment values are present without encounter-target published citation-backed claims. Treat the matrix as unprovenanced metadata until direct claims are added.
Witness totals are stored, but no encounter-level cited claim currently documents where those numbers came from.
// ASSESSMENT METADATA
Stored case-assessment fields
Stored total witness estimate6
Stored verified-report count6
Instrumental evidence flagYES
Official investigation flagYES
These stored assessment values are shown transparently but should not be treated as source-backed facts until encounter-target claims cite their provenance.