CaseLight2017

Spruce Knob, WV, USA

Square Light during Perseids Meteor Shower 2017

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-12
Where
Spruce Knob, WV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
38.867, -79.698 · exact
Slug
light-over-spruce-knob-wv-2017-74aa24
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

  • Spruce Knob, WV shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 23 reports came from West Virginia in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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