CaseLight1959
Buffalo, WV, USA
In 1959, witnesses in Putnam County near Buffalo, West Virginia, reported two lights colliding or merging in the night sky, with debris said to be found the next day.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-15
- Where
- Buffalo, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~30
- Geo
- 38.618, -81.982 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buffalo-wv-1959-65269e
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In context
- Buffalo, WV shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from West Virginia in 1959.
- In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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