UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Hurricane, WV, USA

I was riding in the car and looked out the window. I then saw a circle about as big as a full moon flash across the sky and the disappe

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-10
Where
Hurricane, WV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
about 2 sec.
Geo
38.433, -82.020 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hurricane-wv-1997-d7409e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Hurricane, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 9 sightings in 1997.
  • Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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