CaseLight1971
New Martinsville, WV, USA
A color-changing light was reported following a car near New Martinsville, West Virginia, in May 1971, for about ten minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-05-05
- Where
- New Martinsville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.645, -80.858 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-new-martinsville-wv-1971-2d83e6
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In context
- New Martinsville, WV shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from West Virginia in 1971.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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