CaseLight1998
Moundsville, WV, USA
I was scanning the night sky with 7x50 binoculars when I noticed a light much higher than commercial aircraft usually fly.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-21
- Where
- Moundsville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 39.920, -80.743 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-moundsville-wv-1998-8fb8f0
In context
- Moundsville, WV shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from West Virginia in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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