Marion, VA, USA
This was a story told to me by my mother , that a circular object appeared on top of the radio transmission antenna tower in the area a
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-30
- Where
- Marion, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.835, -81.515 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-marion-va-1954-af49b2
Part of a wave
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.…
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Marion, VA.
- This case is one of 4 Virginia reports filed in 1954.
- Circle craft made up 10% of 1950s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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