Fairmont, WV, USA
Three smooth gliding amber lights;no blinkers,two kept same distance apart moving WSW to ESE as moon stayed still while one followed.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-18
- Where
- Fairmont, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.485, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fairmont-wv-2014-34bd89
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
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Fairmont, WV.
- This case is one of 63 West Virginia reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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