Parkersburg, WV, USA
6 objects flying from WV across the Ohio river moving into different formations with no noise and fast.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-30
- Where
- Parkersburg, WV, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 39.267, -81.562 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-parkersburg-wv-2016-47d60c
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Parkersburg, WV.
- This case is one of 31 West Virginia reports filed in 2016.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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