Hundred, WV, USA
Witnesses near Hundred, West Virginia, reported an oval-shaped object traveling across hills at moderate speed, illuminating treetops below during a 30-second sighting in September 1966.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-08
- Where
- Hundred, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- 39.684, -80.459 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-hundred-wv-1966-2d6bec
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Hundred, WV.
- This case is one of 4 West Virginia reports filed in 1966.
- Oval craft made up 6.6% of 1960s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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