CaseCigar1979
Van (Van Park), WV, USA
This cigar shaped craft was about 200 feet from us and only about 100 foot up from the ground. It was just at the top of the trees an
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-15
- Where
- Van (Van Park), WV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.971, -81.711 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-van-van-park-wv-1979-955d95
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Van (Van Park), WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 4 sightings in 1979.
- Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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