UFOMYST
CaseOther1996

Beckley, WV, USA

Silent, low flying helicopter with light scanning below

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1996-08-15
Where
Beckley, WV, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
37.778, -81.188 · exact
Slug
other-over-beckley-wv-1996-1e7b21

In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Beckley, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 8 sightings in 1996.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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