UFOMYST
CaseChanging2004

Elkins, WV, USA

Explosive cloud over West Virginia, high altitude? ((NUFORC Note: Result of earlier missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-08-31
Where
Elkins, WV, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 min
Geo
38.926, -79.847 · exact
Slug
changing-over-elkins-wv-2004-176deb
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Elkins, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 25 sightings in 2004.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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