CaseFormation2012

Buckhannon, WV, USA

UFOs Observed Over Buckhannon, WV - September 2012

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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  • Duration parsed: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-26
Where
Buckhannon, WV, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
~10-15 minutes
Geo
38.994, -80.232 · exact
Slug
formation-over-buckhannon-wv-2012-1b8db3
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…

In context

  • Buckhannon, WV shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 63 reports came from West Virginia in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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