◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
A Glowing Sphere over Keesler and Out Across the Gulf
At 20:00 on 8 August 1949 a USAF lieutenant standing on the Biloxi seawall with his wife and her parents saw a brilliant sphere come from over Keesler AFB and race out across the Gulf of Mexico in about 30 seconds. He ruled out a firefly and a meteor fragment. The file holds his signed statement and no evaluation. This is the record of what one family reported, not a verdict on what crossed the Gulf.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- A Glowing Sphere over Keesler and Out Across the Gulf is a reported UAP case in Seawall at Biloxi, Mississippi, USA, 8 August 1949, 20:00 CST.
- A USAF lieutenant on the Biloxi seawall on 8 August 1949 reported a brilliant sphere "the size of a waste paper basket" racing from over Keesler AFB out over the Gulf in about 30 seconds.
- He estimated its speed at 600 to 800 mph on an unusually horizontal path, and rejected a firefly or a meteor fragment.
- The signed statement sits in a Blue Book file indexed as Long Island, New York, with no evaluation of the Biloxi sighting.
- A fireball is a plausible ordinary reading that the file does not explore.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 4 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-12; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
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EVENT DATE
8 August 1949, 20:00 CST
LOCATION
Seawall at Biloxi, Mississippi · USA
COORDS
30.40°N 88.89°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
4
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-12 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
