UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Parkersburg (10 miles south of Ohio/W.Virginia Border near), WV, USA

Observed silent, slow moving craft moving in Northeasterly direction. Lost sight as it moved over hills.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-15
Where
Parkersburg (10 miles south of Ohio/W.Virginia Border near), WV, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
ten minutes
Geo
39.267, -81.562 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-parkersburg-10-miles-south-of-ohio-w-virginia-border-near-wv-1997-316ae1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Parkersburg (10 miles south of Ohio/W.Virginia Border near), WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 9 sightings in 1997.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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