Sistersville, WV, USA
Near Sistersville, West Virginia on July 15, 1965, witnesses described a fireball that appeared to drip flames without being consumed, visible for about twenty 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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (168 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-15
- Where
- Sistersville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.564, -80.996 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sistersville-wv-1965-a4432d
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Sistersville, WV shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from West Virginia in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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