UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2016

Martinsburg, WV, USA

Octagonal, bright, white/blue, light that flashed 3 x, and disappeared

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-17
Where
Martinsburg, WV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
39.456, -77.964 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-martinsburg-wv-2016-d92175
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Martinsburg, WV shows up 28 times across the archive.
  • 31 reports came from West Virginia in 2016.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.