Mannington, WV, USA
Tuesday april 3rd at 8:50 p.m. in Mannington wv I was pulling in my drive way and my two kids say "hey dad what is that in the sky abov
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-03
- Where
- Mannington, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.531, -80.343 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mannington-wv-2012-8288bd
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
- Mannington, WV shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from West Virginia in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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