UFOMYST
CaseDisk2005

Sophia, WV, USA

((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus in the western sky. PD)) Object with bright white lights.

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-07-31
Where
Sophia, WV, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 hours
Geo
37.708, -81.251 · exact
Slug
disk-over-sophia-wv-2005-128195
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Sophia, WV.
  • This case is one of 24 West Virginia reports filed in 2005.
  • Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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