CaseLight2004

Martinsburg, WV, USA

Five objects that moved too slowly to be any aircraft that made zero sound with red, green, blue and white lights that went in pattern

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-03
Where
Martinsburg, WV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 hours
Geo
39.456, -77.964 · exact
Slug
light-over-martinsburg-wv-2004-c13ccb
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

  • This is one of 28 reports logged in Martinsburg, WV.
  • This case is one of 25 West Virginia reports filed in 2004.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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