CaseLight2011

Elkins, WV, USA

I just got home last night. When I was getting out of the car. I looked on the sky and there was these 4 bright orange light flying in

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-05-14
Where
Elkins, WV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Geo
38.926, -79.847 · exact
Slug
light-over-elkins-wv-2011-0989ef
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…

In context

  • Elkins, WV shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 30 reports came from West Virginia in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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