Vienna, WV, USA
((HOAX??)) We saw 3 white lights in the sky; they were blinking at different spots in a pattern. The pattern stayed in the same spot.
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-06-06
- Where
- Vienna, WV, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.327, -81.548 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-vienna-wv-2016-c4e040
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Vienna, WV shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 31 reports came from West Virginia in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.