UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Marlinton, WV, USA

Saw 20-30 objects fly over no sound. Light all around then and in them. Not to big. Not in no.line. look like orbits. Not moving.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-07-30
Where
Marlinton, WV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.223, -80.095 · exact
Slug
circle-over-marlinton-wv-2016-0f9855
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Marlinton, WV has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 31 reports from West Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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