UFOMYST
CaseChanging1978

Morgantown, WV, USA

This happened quite awhile back and I never reported it, but with all the attention recently, I tell people I think I saw one, and they

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-04
Where
Morgantown, WV, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 min
Geo
39.630, -79.956 · exact
Slug
changing-over-morgantown-wv-1978-4567c0
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Morgantown, WV shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from West Virginia in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

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.