NUFORC Reports for State WV

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Media
Open	03/15/1995 23:25	Fairmont	WV	USA		Woman witnessed egg-shaped obj. in cloud of green light streak overhead. Trailing edge yellow. Very, very fast	03/15/1995	11/02/1999
Open	10/11/1995 20:00	Huntington	WV	USA		Young man & grandfather see a "large, orange, round or oval" obj. move along horizon very fast, hover, move erratically. Bizarre!	10/11/1995	11/02/1999
Open	05/22/1996 22:30	Huntington	WV	USA		Man sees very large obj. in sky with "circle of lights" on ventral side. Obj. suddenly "turned on a dime," flies in different dir..	05/23/1996	11/02/1999
Open	12/30/1996 02:30	Elkins	WV	USA		Man witnesses large, brilliantly bright, silver-white light, size of a full moon, passing overhead. Obj. flashed, then disappeared.	12/29/1996	11/02/1999
Open	03/11/1997 18:30	Charleston	WV	USA	Sphere	3 bright,orange objects with comet-like tails, movingtoward earth, then toward each other, thenhorizontally, east to s.west	03/12/1997	03/07/1998
Open	06/22/1996 22:30	Buckhannon	WV	USA	Triangle	A rather large triangular shaped disk was noticed about 800 yards away hovering at the level of tree tops. Me and a friend began to ex	03/29/1997	03/07/1998
Open	07/18/1997 23:00	Shepherdstown	WV	USA	Light	saw a bright white flashing (2-3 sec intervals) light in a field approx. 40 ft in the air. object was stationary. ((anonymous report))	07/21/1997	09/26/1998
Open	02/08/1998 19:20	Moundsville	WV	USA	Light	Bright, slow-moving, star-like light	03/03/1998	01/28/1999
Open	10/15/1989 10:30	Morgantown	WV	USA	Triangle	I was working as a DJ at WCLG in Morgantown WV. I am sorry I dont know the date and am sorry that I am now reporting a 9 year old sigh	03/09/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/10/1989 03:00	Martinsburg	WV	USA	Triangle	Seen an object very high in the sky, moving at a high rate of speed to the south and jumping side to side while continuing to move forw	03/14/1998	01/28/1999
Open	08/15/1997 04:00	Parkersburg (10 miles south of Ohio/W.Virginia Border near)	WV	USA	Triangle	Observed silent, slow moving craft moving in Northeasterly direction. Lost sight as it moved over hills.	04/08/1998	02/24/2001
Open	07/27/1998 04:40	Charleston	WV	USA	Fireball	A bright green fireball flew across the sky. It was about the size of the full moon and looked much brighter.	09/18/1998	11/21/1998
Open	06/21/1998 22:10	Moundsville	WV	USA	Light	I was scanning the night sky with 7x50 binoculars when I noticed a light much higher than commercial aircraft usually fly.	06/23/1998	11/21/1998
Open	07/15/1979 21:30	Ranger	WV	USA	Triangle	Late night summer of 1979. Three triangle shaped craft.	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	11/27/1998 15:35	Charleston	WV	USA	Fireball	Me and my friends were playing some football in our yard and	11/27/1998	01/28/1999
Open	11/10/1997 21:45	Hurricane	WV	USA	Circle	I was riding in the car and looked out the window. I then saw a circle about as big as a full moon flash across the sky and the disappe	11/23/1998	02/16/1999
Open	08/15/1984 01:00	Beckley	WV	USA	Unknown	Possible abduction from my room.	02/27/1999	11/20/2001
Open	03/04/1999 21:35	Morgantown	WV	USA	Triangle	I saw a triangle shape in the sky that seemed to hover in one place then it started spinning it was black the lights were yellowish. Th	03/05/1999	04/02/1999
Open	03/23/1999 18:15	Cross Lanes	WV	USA	Cylinder	Noticed a very shiny object at a very high altitude that looked like a strange jet. It left a contrial and moved across the sky at abou	03/25/1999	04/02/1999
Open	02/09/1999 13:30	Leon	WV	USA	Other	it was a revolving light. It would change from red to green to white	03/16/1999	04/02/1999
Open	03/27/1999 02:30	Wheeling	WV	USA	Fireball	Driving west on Interstate 70, watched a bright green light passing above me moving heading west. Was visable until it went behind hil	03/27/1999	04/26/1999
Open	03/27/1999 17:30	Follansbee	WV	USA	Disk	MY AND MY UNCLE WERE TAKING MY DOG 4 A WALK AT THE RIVER BANK AND COMING BACK I NOTICED 2 FLYING OBJECTS THAT WERE DISK SHAPED AND THEY	03/28/1999	11/20/2002
Open	04/25/1999 13:00	Summersville	WV	USA	Disk	My wife and I saw a silvery disc flying above Rt. 19, close to the hosp. It made no sound. It seemed to be rotating. It then flew up ne	04/25/1999	05/24/1999
Open	04/17/1999 22:30	Parkersburg (just outside of, on route 50 east)	WV	USA	Triangle	It was hovering in one spot about 100 ft off the ground, it was triangled with the brightest white lights I have ever saw, when the spa	05/05/1999	05/24/1999
Open	04/30/1999 09:30	Cairo	WV	USA	Disk	well its has blue,red,green,yellow lights. its just sits there for hours at a time.	05/05/1999	01/11/2002
Open	04/13/1999 20:50	Poca (3.5 miles north of)	WV	USA	Orb	Saw unusal light "star" move across sky - amber orb lowered and followed 2 witnesses (from dime size to basketball size in seconds. whi	04/28/1999	07/01/2002
Open	04/23/1995 01:30	Wheeling	WV	USA	Light	Was out in backyard stargazing I guess you could say, when I notice what looked like a bright star, and that's what I thought it was to	05/09/1999	09/06/2002
Open	05/10/1999 22:30	Grantsville, W.V.	WV	USA	Teardrop	I saw the ship zooming thriugh the air back and forth. Then let out a huge ray of light like a giant spot light of some sort.the craft	05/11/1999	05/24/1999
Open	08/01/1997 22:00	Stonewood	WV	USA	Cone	4 lights on each side and one at the top color black gave off a humming noise burnt leaves on trees	06/28/1999	07/05/1999
Open	06/03/1999 13:30	Burlington	WV	USA	Other	Driving home from town and looked to my left and saw a circular object with a dome-shape on top. It was eye-level but the funny thing	07/21/1999	08/10/1999
Open	08/03/1999 23:15	Lesage (near)	WV	USA	Light	An amber light was moving slowly over the hills from east to west. It suddenly blinked out and then blinked on again a few seconds late	08/04/1999	08/10/1999
Open	08/31/1999 01:00	Lumberport	WV	USA	Light	"star" - constantly changes colors - red,violet,green,yellow - in NE sky. Stationary for entire sighting	08/30/1999	09/12/1999
Open	09/03/1999 00:00	Beckley	WV	USA	Other	Over a period of 1.5 hours last night, we watched a total of 8 separate star-type lights in the northeast and southwest areas of our sk	09/04/1999	09/12/1999
Open	09/01/1999 23:30	Huntington	WV	USA	Rectangle	A bright star suddenly appeared in the western sky. It then fell toward the earth in a streak of white light. Near the horizon, it sudd	09/07/1999	09/12/1999
Open	06/15/1965 20:15	St. Marys	WV	USA	Disk	White disc-shaped object witnessed in West Virgina in mid-1960s	09/14/1999	10/02/1999
Open	08/15/1999 16:00	Eleanor	WV	USA	Cigar	Driving In Car when it appeared appeared in sky. It was long and silver with a long black line in the middle.	09/21/1999	07/01/2002
Open	03/20/1999 20:30	Poca (in Manilla Creek)	WV	USA	Orb	As it moved across tthe sky and stopped looked like a star.Dropped down from the sky to several hundred feet above the ground. Followed	09/22/1999	07/01/2002
Open	09/28/1999 22:00	Poca	WV	USA	Disk	Standing outside on front porch when strange disk shaped object flew over a hill and headed as if it was to land. One witness told anot	09/29/1999	07/01/2002
Open		New Martinsville	WV	USA	Light	At 5:30pm EST, I was pulling from a side street onto Rt#2 north when i saw what at first appeared to be a star. I stopped my car after	11/25/1999	11/30/1999
Open	11/16/1999 19:05	Kearneysville	WV	USA	Light	4-5 bright lights were seen approximately equally spaced from each other moving from the west to the east. They appeared to be moving	12/08/1999	12/16/1999
Open	12/26/1999 06:45	Huntington	WV	USA	Unknown	At ~6:45 a.m. on 12-26-99, I watches a football shaped light approached from the S/West and travel N/East,it remained as constant starl	12/26/1999	01/07/2000
Open	01/01/1956 05:30	Weirton	WV	USA	Disk	My Uncle Sam was driving to work very early one winter morning. He lived down the street from my house. As he approached my home in h	12/27/1999	01/07/2000
Open	10/01/1974 18:00	Weirton	WV	USA	Sphere	Upon coming home one evening in the early spring, I saw in the eastern horizon three circular objects that looked like three full mooon	12/27/1999	01/07/2000
Open	12/29/1999 19:20	Huntington	WV	USA	Light	Watched a bright luminous light approach low over city From the S/W. Made no sound as it moved at a slow steady rate speed. As it came	12/31/1999	01/07/2000
Open	01/20/2000 10:39	Cairo	WV	USA	Circle	Rotating in circles and then disappeared after about 15 seconds.	01/22/2000	01/22/2000
Open	11/16/1999 19:30	West Virginia (Interstate 81, near PA border)	WV	USA	Fireball	My wifw and I, while driving on interstate 81 saw three bright objects, in formation, going from waest to east in the north sky at abou	02/03/2000	02/16/2000
Open	03/01/2000 00:30	Pineville (Pinnacle strip mine)	WV	USA	Triangle	Saw a triangle shaped craft, very large, made very little noise, low altitude.	03/13/2000	03/16/2000
Open	04/28/2000 21:00	Wheeling	WV	USA	Triangle	Huge triangular light formation.	05/01/2000	05/03/2000
Open	10/15/1998 22:00	Hinton	WV	USA	Orb	Single light travelling at high rate of speed, radically changed course numerous times. Stayed in same area for entire time, orbiting	05/16/2000	06/06/2000
Open	12/15/1998 22:30	Hinton	WV	USA	Light	Two lights at extremely high altitude and speed, travelling parallel to each other, in an Westerly direction. They first appeared to b	05/16/2000	06/06/2000
Open	05/01/1971 02:00	Lewisburg	WV	USA	Triangle	I observed a triangular object hovering without sound for approximately 15 minutes during the night.	05/16/2000	06/06/2000
Open	06/10/2000 22:00	Moundsville	WV	USA	Flash	it looked like a star that was flashing red, white, and yellow.	06/11/2000	06/21/2000
Open	09/16/2000 07:12	Martinsburg	WV	USA	Triangle	A triangular metalic UFO exhibiting no vapor trail was spotted in the vicinity of two commercial aircraft.	09/22/2000	12/02/2000
Open	10/12/2000 17:40	New Haven	WV	USA	Disk	Disk shaped object sited over Mason County W.V. traveling at high rate of speed.	10/14/2000	12/02/2000
Open	11/08/2000 22:00	Winfield	WV	USA	Fireball	west virginia, winfield -fire in the sky	11/09/2000	12/02/2000
Open	09/27/2000 01:24	Gerrardstown	WV	USA	Disk	The disk had four lights,one long on each third and a fourth in the center flashing emitting beams of light as it moved	12/08/2000	12/09/2000
Open	02/06/2000 06:30	St. Albans	WV	USA	Changing	Witness recalls recent witnessing of Unidentified object in WV skys.	02/08/2001	02/18/2001
Open	09/12/1988 23:30	Oakvale	WV	USA	Cylinder	Being followed by something unknown.......	02/28/2001	03/06/2001
Open	03/08/2001 23:30	Huntington	WV	USA	Circle	circular object that was amber in color suddenly appeared in the sky	03/09/2001	03/16/2001
Open	03/08/1987 12:27	Ghent	WV	USA	Egg	It was scary!	03/23/2001	04/01/2001
Open	03/25/2001 21:03	Morgantown	WV	USA	Disk	On the evening of March 25, 2001, I was out riding my horse over the foothills of the Appalachain mountians. It was getting dark, so I	04/13/2001	04/28/2001
Open	04/22/2001 20:50	Huntington	WV	USA	Triangle	30 foot triangle shaped, constant humming, static electric which made face and arms tingle, disapeared toward the west.	04/22/2001	04/28/2001
Open	04/28/2001 11:48	Cairo	WV	USA	Fireball	I just saw a bright green light moving across the sky from east to west, south of town then it exploded into orange sparks. It was prob	04/28/2001	08/05/2001
Open	09/26/1996 02:39	Cowen	WV	USA	Disk	I was lieing in my bed when.........	05/30/2001	08/05/2001
Open	10/01/1998 22:30	Moundsville	WV	USA	Triangle	5 large objects observed, 4 of them flying in a rectangular motion. Perfect 90 degree banks at incredible speed!!!	07/14/2001	08/05/2001
Open	07/14/2001 21:00	Great Cacapon	WV	USA	Light	Bright disappearing lights in sky near Great Cacapon, WV 7/14/01	07/18/2001	08/05/2001
Open	06/24/2000 22:00	Hurricane	WV	USA	Formation	What seemed ood is that when we went home our cousin said she seen somthing in the field, and we havent said anything to her yet.	07/29/2001	08/05/2001
Open	07/01/1966 20:30	Milton	WV	USA	Light	One light into two	07/29/2001	08/05/2001
Open	11/01/1978 03:00	Culloden	WV	USA	Unknown	We had been to a bonfire on a friends farm. As we were returning home, we were passing through this small town when I looked at the dr	07/29/2001	08/05/2001
Open	08/01/2001 06:00	Wayne	WV	USA	Other	Some kind of object was floating over one of my cows.	08/01/2001	08/05/2001
Open	08/19/2001 01:30	Fairmont	WV	USA	Diamond	I Just woke up and looked out my window and saw two dimond saped bright green and had four wings.	08/20/2001	08/20/2001
Open	09/05/2001 20:49	Parkersburg	WV	USA	Light	On 5 Sep 2001, at approx. 2049,A bright white light, that swelled and disappeared, was seen from Parkersburg, WV in the north sky.	09/05/2001	10/12/2001
Open	10/02/2001 06:50	Sandyville	WV	USA	Egg	Red Glowing Blimp-Like Object Hovering over a field	10/03/2001	10/12/2001
Open	10/03/2001 20:20	Dunbar	WV	USA	Light	2 singular lights traveling south to north with a third appearing to go straight up till fading out.	10/04/2001	10/12/2001
Open	12/06/2000 20:00	Milton	WV	USA	Light	Two lights collided and made one. They shot off like in star trek.	11/01/2001	11/20/2001
Open	11/01/2001 21:00	Huntington	WV	USA	Unknown	A distortion in the sky that moved and stopped, then moved again.	11/01/2001	11/20/2001
Open	11/01/2001 21:00	Huntington	WV	USA	Unknown	A distortion	11/01/2001	11/20/2001
Open	11/08/2001 08:30	Vienna/Williamstown	WV	USA	Unknown	Mysterious BOOM Shakes Area	11/19/2001	11/20/2001
Open	07/01/1957 13:00	Mullens/Pineville	WV	USA	Oval	USAF JETS BELIEVED TO HAVE SHOT AT OR DESTROYED UFO'S OVER THE SKYS OF WEST VIRGINIA IN THE LATER 1950'S.	12/12/2001	01/11/2002
Open	10/01/1986 22:00	Wheeling	WV	USA	Light	Missing time after seeing something that looked like the Northern lights.	12/20/2001	01/11/2002
Open	01/20/2002 23:00	Huntinton	WV	USA	Fireball	wowk tv reported on the 11 oclock news that reports from across the state were coming into there weather station of a huge fireball at	01/21/2002	01/29/2002
Open	04/15/2001 14:00	Lewisburg	WV	USA	Light	unexplained beams coming from the hoizon.	01/28/2002	02/22/2002
Open	02/11/2002 23:50	Milton	WV	USA	Cylinder	Inverted Cylinder flying the night sky near Milton WA	02/12/2002	02/22/2002
Open	05/01/1949 14:00	Oak Ridge (drive)	WV	USA	Other	log shape whooshing object observed near charleston w.v.	02/28/2002	03/19/2002
Open	01/15/2000 22:00	Milton	WV	USA	Light	A huge, bright , glowing light was seen in the sky above the hills of our property, making no sound whatsoever....	02/28/2002	03/19/2002
Open	06/15/1986 00:00	Fairdale	WV	USA		very bright changing color lights coming from window	03/04/2002	03/19/2002
Open	05/01/2002 17:30	Rippon	WV	USA	Other	Round gold object with white "wings" near Rippon, West Virginia.	05/02/2002	05/14/2002
Open	05/05/2002 16:00	Core	WV	USA		Has anyone had this happen?	05/08/2002	05/14/2002
Open	06/22/2000 09:30	Sophia	WV	USA	Unknown	The U.F.O on Tams Mountian. I now believe in aliens!!!	05/28/2002	06/12/2002
Open	06/04/2002 11:00	Cabins	WV	USA	Egg	Transparent Object Seen In Picture After Downloading.	06/26/2002	07/01/2002
Open	07/06/2002 23:00	Clarksburg	WV	USA	Unknown	A "star" that wasnt a star	07/08/2002	07/26/2002
Open	07/10/2002 22:13	Farmington	WV	USA	Light	Small light seen zig-zagging over West Virginia camp	07/13/2002	07/26/2002
Open	11/01/1998 17:00	Great Cacapon	WV	USA	Triangle	Me and my ex-fiance were fooling around in the woods, it was deer season so i had my rifle equiped with a high power tasco scope, we we	07/22/2002	07/26/2002
Open	06/05/2002 23:35	Charles Town	WV	USA	Light	I would have reported this sooner if I had knon there was somewhere to report it. I was looking out my bedroom window when I saw a whit	07/26/2002	07/30/2002
Open	07/29/2002 22:30	Bluefield/Green Valley	WV	USA	Light	Strange lights in the sky, Bluefield West Virginia July 29-30 2002	07/30/2002	08/16/2002
Open	07/26/2002 23:50	Evans	WV	USA	Changing	Changing orange object over treeline.	08/03/2002	08/16/2002
Open	08/30/2002 00:15	Lost Creek	WV	USA	Light	red green and white flashing light which had no movement for over 1 1/2 hours	08/29/2002	09/06/2002
Open	05/31/1994 20:00	Marlington	WV	USA	Disk	Driving home at dusk,my wife and I saw a saucer shaped craft fly directly overhead at tree top level,the craft had a circle of lights o	09/10/2002	09/13/2002
Open	07/31/2002 20:00	Charleston	WV	USA	Cylinder	it had a transparent covering with 4 lights inside it that glowed 1 bright at a time , but all were visible.	10/21/2002	10/28/2002
Open	11/23/2002 05:00	Lost River	WV	USA	Disk	The object appeared in the southwestern sky and appeared to be a star at first glance. What made me more curious was the fact that it w	11/23/2002	12/23/2002
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