CaseOther1949
Oak Ridge (drive), WV, USA
A witness near Charleston, West Virginia reported a log-shaped object whooshing past, observed for about 40 seconds in May 1949.
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1949-05-01
- Where
- Oak Ridge (drive), WV, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 40seconds
- Geo
- 38.075, -81.110 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-oak-ridge-drive-wv-1949-572da3
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Oak Ridge (drive), WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 1 sightings in 1949.
- Other sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1940s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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