Flap: Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Nov–Dec 1966
10 reports · 12 separate documents
Mothman (7), Other Flying (3).
In the 10 years either side we have 4 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Nov 1, 1966 A national guardsman stationed at the McClintic Wildlife Preserve saw a large manbird creature perched in a tree staring at him.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Nov 1966 [name] saw a flying man that looked like a bird fly under the bridge before it fell.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · rabbit hole - Nov 1966 Multiple witnesses reported seeing a winged creature with glowing red eyes in the Point Pleasant area leading up to the Silver Bridge collapse.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Nov 15, 1966 Witnesses Roger and Linda Scarberry and Stephen and [name] saw a six-and-a-half to seven-foot-tall winged creature with giant red eyes near the TNT area in…
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · rabbit hole - Nov 16, 1966 [name] claimed the Moth Man rose up behind her car near the TNT area, causing her to collapse in a trans-like state and fall on top of her infant child.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Nov 16, 1966 Mrs. [name] reports seeing a large object hovering at tree-top level with green and red lights that left rapidly with a zig-zag movement.
Other Flying · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Nov 16, 1966 The [name] family and Mrs. [name] report seeing a headless creature with glowing red eyes that rose up from the ground and walked around their friend's porch.
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia · rabbit hole - Nov 25, 1966 [name] reports observing a grey manlike figure that spread its wings and ascended vertically like a helicopter, then sped after his vehicle at over seventy…
Mothman · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Nov 26, 1966 A family witnesses a flock of large birds for two hours, each as big as a man with a wingspread of at least 10 feet and somewhat red heads.
Other Flying · Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Dec 4, 1966 Pilots report seeing an enormous bird with an extremely long neck flying at about 300 feet and 70 miles per hour without flapping its wings.
Other Flying · Gallipolis, Ohio
Sources: Reddit (8), YouTube (4).
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.