This news clipping above comes from The Weirton Daily Times and is dated Thursday, 09 February 1967. Two days earlier, on Tuesday February 7, 1967 John Casale of Hoover Heights (located just outside Follansbee, WV in Brooke County) spotted a UFO flying over his home on 2nd Street. The craft was described as being yellowish in color and round, flying from the direction of Steubenville, OH towards nearby Mingo Junction around 8pm that evening.
Among the other witnesses were John's wife, and his children, Mary Ann and Peggy. A handful of others witnessed the flying saucer as well. They were reported as being Louis Casini, Larry Kofur?, Dan Buffington, Richard Banfi?, and Lenny Baldauf.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any additional details about this particular sighting, but a quick search led to a handful of other UFO reports coming in from Follansbee between 1989 and 2017! In addition to this 2007 highly detailed account of a black, arrow-shaped anomaly with red lights seen over Rt. 2 submitted to UFO Net (read report HERE), incident reports from NUFORC can be found for 1989, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007 (which closely resembles the other 2007 report from UFO Net, but happened a few days before), and 2017. With the exception of the 2007 incidents, all of these craft seem pretty different in their descriptions, and not once did the round, yellow saucer of 1967 seemingly return.
There is no shortage of UFO sightings from the Mountain State and I'll continue to share and document as many as I come across. Keep your eyes to the skies, and feel free to contact me with your own sightings of strange aerial anomalies!
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