Barboursville, WV, USA
Elongated Object With Protrusions On Each Side Seen During Solar Eclipse Between Moon & Sun
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-21
- Where
- Barboursville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 38.410, -82.295 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-barboursville-wv-2017-0a243e
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Barboursville, WV shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from West Virginia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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