Beckley, WV, USA
There was a boom at about 4:06pm that was felt in 3 different counties and tonight well at 12:40am on 2/5/14 I went out to look at the
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-05
- Where
- Beckley, WV, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.778, -81.188 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-beckley-wv-2014-9836ac
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Beckley, WV shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from West Virginia in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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