Paw Paw, WV, USA
I heard some yelling outside, so i looked out my window and saw a bright white flash that zoomed off into the sky and dissapeared.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-01
- Where
- Paw Paw, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 39.549, -80.153 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-paw-paw-wv-2012-41a9e8
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Paw Paw, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 63 sightings in 2012.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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