UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Morgantown, WV, USA

((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail? PD)) I notices that the plains smoke cloud coming off the back.

Report quality: Low26/100

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
  • Brief witness text (58 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
2004-08-16
Where
Morgantown, WV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
8pm.
Geo
39.630, -79.956 · exact
Slug
circle-over-morgantown-wv-2004-28874b
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

  • Morgantown, WV shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 25 reports came from West Virginia in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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