When and where was Elkhorn Long-Exposure UFO Photograph documented?

This encounter was documented on 1973-10-17 in Elkhorn, West Virginia, United States.

What sources and physical claims back the Elkhorn Long-Exposure UFO Photograph record?

The ANOMALY archive indexes 0 independent source citations across 0 claims, achieving a provenance completeness score of 43%.

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E-009617DATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 43%

Elkhorn Long-Exposure UFO Photograph

Name: Elkhorn Long-Exposure UFO Photograph
Start: 1973-10-17
Location: Elkhorn, United States

1973-10-17Elkhorn, West Virginia, United States

Seventeen-year-old David Bodner reported a bright fluttering or pulsating object and obtained a long-exposure photograph. Hall also notes a superficially similar Columbus, Ohio photograph from the same night without proving a connection.

// LINKED CLASSIFICATIONS:Unresolved Structured Object(C-000265)→

// PROVENANCE COVERAGE

43% record completeness

This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.

0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY

Date documented

1973-10-17

Location documented

Elkhorn, West Virginia, United States

Map coordinates available

No latitude/longitude is available for mapping.

Catalogue classification linked

1 family link(s), 0 case-specific component(s).

Published citation-backed claims

0 encounter-target claim(s), 0 component claim(s).

Source coverage

0 unique source edition(s); 0 marked primary for at least one claim.

Assessment has encounter-level provenance

Assessment fields exist, but no encounter-target published citation-backed claim currently supports them.

Assessment values are present without encounter-target published citation-backed claims. Treat the matrix as unprovenanced metadata until direct claims are added.

Witness totals are stored, but no encounter-level cited claim currently documents where those numbers came from.

// ASSESSMENT METADATA

Stored case-assessment fields

DIRECT PROVENANCE INCOMPLETE

Stored total witness estimate1

Stored verified-report count0

Instrumental evidence flagNO

Official investigation flagNO

These stored assessment values are shown transparently but should not be treated as source-backed facts until encounter-target claims cite their provenance.