UFOMYST
CaseChanging2004

West Virginia (above; in-flight sighting), WV, USA

Oct 4/04 from plane - two dark brown sticklike objects sticking out of the clouds - then dark line gliding away

Report quality: Moderate47/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-04
Where
West Virginia (above; in-flight sighting), WV, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
less than 5 min.
Geo
47.515, -92.570 · fallback
Slug
changing-over-west-virginia-above-in-flight-sighting-wv-2004-f482df
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • West Virginia (above; in-flight sighting), WV has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 25 reports from West Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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