CaseSphere1974
Weirton, WV, USA
Upon coming home one evening in the early spring, I saw in the eastern horizon three circular objects that looked like three full mooon
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-10-01
- Where
- Weirton, WV, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.419, -80.590 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-weirton-wv-1974-2bf30e
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Weirton, WV.
- This case is one of 3 West Virginia reports filed in 1974.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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