Flap: Clendenin, West Virginia, Nov 1966
3 reports · 5 separate documents
Mothman (2), Other Flying (1).
In the 10 years either side we have no other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Nov 12, 1966 Five men preparing a grave witnessed a winged humanoid figure descend from a tree and fly away.
Mothman · Clendenin, West Virginia - Nov 1966 Witness [name] reports that she and her four siblings went to TNT sightings in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in November 1966, where they encountered and were…
Mothman · Kanawha County, West Virginia · rabbit hole - Nov 1966 Five cemetery workers in Clendenin claimed they saw a winged creature fly over them and away over the trees.
Other Flying · Clendenin, West Virginia
Sources: Reddit (3).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.