CaseUnknown1996
Elkins, WV, USA
Man witnesses large, brilliantly bright, silver-white light, size of a full moon, passing overhead. Obj. flashed, then disappeared.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-30
- Where
- Elkins, WV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 90 sec.
- Geo
- 38.926, -79.847 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-elkins-wv-1996-bd1146
In context
- Elkins, WV has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 8 reports from West Virginia.
Report
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