CaseOval1986
Martinsburg, WV, USA
bottom of a huge aircraft hovering directly over the yard.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-11-01
- Where
- Martinsburg, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 39.456, -77.964 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-martinsburg-wv-1986-9ada4e
In context
- Martinsburg, WV has 28 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 3 reports from West Virginia.
- The 1980s skewed 5.2% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.