Moundsville, WV, USA
an oval twinkling light that turned orange and shot across the sky three times in a blue strek forming a triangular flight pattern,stop
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-03
- Where
- Moundsville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3:00 minutes
- Geo
- 39.920, -80.743 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-moundsville-wv-2013-8f7e4c
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
- Moundsville, WV shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from West Virginia in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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