◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
A Silent Metal 'Sheet' over Mount Hope
At 17:00 on 1 October 1949 a Mount Hope, West Virginia, man and his wife standing on a hill saw what looked like a flat sheet of tarnished metal cross the sky due north at terrific speed and vanish. He wrote to the Air Force, which acknowledged the letter and added it to its study without investigating. This is the record of what the Garretts reported, not a verdict on what crossed Mount Hope.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- A Silent Metal 'Sheet' over Mount Hope is a reported UAP case in Mount Hope, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA, Saturday 1 October 1949, about 17:00.
- A Mount Hope, West Virginia, man wrote to the Air Force that on 1 October 1949 he and his wife saw an object like a sheet of tarnished metal cross due north at terrific speed and vanish.
- He described it as four to five feet long with rounded corners, silent and without wings, and said it was neither illusion, planet nor ordinary aircraft.
- The Air Force only acknowledged the letter as "included in our present study"; nobody investigated.
- None of six outside catalogues checked lists the sighting.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 2 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-12; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
Saturday 1 October 1949, about 17:00
LOCATION
Mount Hope, Fayette County, West Virginia · USA
COORDS
37.90°N 81.16°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
2
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-12 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
