CaseCylinder2003
Wheeling, WV, USA
Dark, slow moving Cylinder overhead in a clear sky ((NUFORC Note: Sighting by astronomer. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-15
- Where
- Wheeling, WV, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- app 2 min
- Geo
- 40.064, -80.721 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-wheeling-wv-2003-dbc63b
In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Wheeling, WV.
- This case is one of 18 West Virginia reports filed in 2003.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
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.