UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2012

Philippi, WV, USA

Bright blue/white orb forms hazy cloud, changes shape to teardrop. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-04-03
Where
Philippi, WV, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
0:2:50
Geo
39.152, -80.040 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-philippi-wv-2012-40dcef
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Philippi, WV.
  • This case is one of 63 West Virginia reports filed in 2012.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

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