Elkview, WV, USA
On 27FE16, at 2:51 pm, a silver disc-like oval shaped object was seen above Elkview shopping plaza in Kanawha Co., WV.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-27
- Where
- Elkview, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 100 seconds
- Geo
- 38.443, -81.480 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-elkview-wv-2016-7f22db
Part of a wave
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
- Elkview, WV shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 31 reports came from West Virginia in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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