Martinsburg, WV, USA
A report from Martinsburg, WV in July 1973 described a floating, disc-shaped object making numerous quick course changes, followed by an aircraft appearing to search the area, lasting 5 - 10 minutes.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (199 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-20
- Where
- Martinsburg, WV, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 - 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.456, -77.964 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-martinsburg-wv-1973-854c88
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Martinsburg, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 2 sightings in 1973.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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