CaseOval1957
Mullens/Pineville, WV, USA
Witnesses near Mullens and Pineville, West Virginia believed USAF jets fired at or destroyed oval-shaped objects in the sky, in an incident lasting about three minutes in the late 1950s.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-07-01
- Where
- Mullens/Pineville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.583, -81.380 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mullens-pineville-wv-1957-5333ed
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In context
- Mullens/Pineville, WV has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1957 brought 2 reports from West Virginia.
- The 1950s skewed 6.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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