CaseCylinder1968
Ranson, WV, USA
Orange cylindrical/hexagonal, motionless object, emitting no sound, above the tree line. A rod descended from the bottom.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-01
- Where
- Ranson, WV, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.295, -77.861 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-ranson-wv-1968-2d1708
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Ranson, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 2 sightings in 1968.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 2% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.6%).
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