UFOMYST
CaseCircle1954

Flatwoods, WV, USA

I saw the craft go across the horizon. It appeared to be on fire, I first thought it was a plane going down. It landed near a farm.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1954-10-01
Where
Flatwoods, WV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
38.723, -80.650 · exact
Slug
circle-over-flatwoods-wv-1954-6661bc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1954

    The Great French Wave

    France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America

    The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…

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In context

  • Flatwoods, WV has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1954 brought 1 reports from West Virginia.
  • The 1950s skewed 10% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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