Huntington, WV, USA
Witnesses near Huntington, West Virginia, reported two circular objects that made sharp 90-degree turns without changing speed during a one-minute sighting in September 1966.
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 (174 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-30
- Where
- Huntington, WV, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.419, -82.445 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-huntington-wv-1966-b2117c
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Huntington, WV has 43 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 4 reports from West Virginia.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.