CaseLight1998
Hinton, WV, USA
Single light travelling at high rate of speed, radically changed course numerous times. Stayed in same area for entire time, orbiting
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-15
- Where
- Hinton, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.674, -80.889 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hinton-wv-1998-d32495
In context
- Hinton, WV shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from West Virginia in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.