UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2018

Mineral Wells, WV, USA

A big light in the sky, almost like a sphere changing colors, it was and may still be there. We stood outside for 10 to 15 watching it.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-13
Where
Mineral Wells, WV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
—
Geo
39.178, -81.512 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mineral-wells-wv-2018-fa2c1c
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Mineral Wells, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 15 sightings in 2018.

Report

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