A Galax Virginia sighting October 26th, 1987, is a date that sits in my memory with absolute clarity, anchored by a moment that defied everything I understood about the sky. We were driving back home to Galax after a birthday visit with my grandmother. When we were nearing Wytheville, the conversation simply stopped. It wasn’t…
The 1987 Wytheville, Virginia UFO wave—often referred to by researchers as the “Wytheville Phenomenon”—stands as one of the most intense, heavily witnessed, and enduring mass UFO flaps in American history. Nestled in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, the quiet community of Wytheville and surrounding Wythe County suddenly became the unexpected epicenter of…