UFOMYST
CaseSphere1967

Barboursville, WV, USA

Spherical UFO, fall of 1967, Barboursville,W.Va.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-07-16
Where
Barboursville, WV, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 to 4 minutes
Geo
38.410, -82.295 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-barboursville-wv-1967-9e9f35
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Barboursville, WV has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1967 brought 2 reports from West Virginia.
  • The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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