CaseDisk1944
Wilderness (near western MD), WV, USA
US fighter planes shoot down pre Roswell UFO then military scour crash site & bury UFO remains at wilderness site
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1944-01-01
- Where
- Wilderness (near western MD), WV, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- Geo
- 47.380, -122.048 · fallback
- Slug
- disk-over-wilderness-near-western-md-wv-1944-0f7784
Wave
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…
In context
- Wilderness (near western MD), WV shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from West Virginia in 1944.
- In the 1940s, 27.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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