Weirton, WV, USA
Witnesses near Weirton, West Virginia, west of Pittsburgh, reported a green, glowing spherical object during a sighting lasting one to three minutes in the summer of 1967.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-30
- Where
- Weirton, WV, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1-3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.419, -80.590 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-weirton-wv-1967-dcbc3b
Part of a wave
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'…
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Weirton, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 2 sightings in 1967.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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