CaseDisk1944
Wilderness, WV, USA
Two related reports of possible predecessor to Roswell incident
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 (63 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1944-01-01
- Where
- Wilderness, WV, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- Geo
- 47.380, -122.048 · fallback
- Slug
- disk-over-wilderness-wv-1944-d436da
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Wilderness, WV.
- This case is one of 2 West Virginia reports filed in 1944.
- Disk craft made up 27.3% of 1940s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.