CaseSphere1959
Four States, WV, USA
In 1959, a witness in the Four States area of northern West Virginia reported mysterious red spherical lights in the sky, visible for about ten minutes.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (152 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-10-16
- Where
- Four States, WV, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 MINUTES
- Geo
- 39.480, -80.310 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-four-states-wv-1959-26e38c
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Four States, WV.
- This case is one of 2 West Virginia reports filed in 1959.
- Sphere craft made up 5.1% of 1950s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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