CaseCircle2013
Charles Town, WV, USA
Like a falling star but not. It's fastest object I've ever seen.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-04
- Where
- Charles Town, WV, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- A few second
- Geo
- 39.289, -77.860 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-charles-town-wv-2013-227f37
Wave
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
- Charles Town, WV has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 58 reports from West Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.