CaseLight1986
Wheeling, WV, USA
Missing time after seeing something that looked like the Northern lights.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-10-01
- Where
- Wheeling, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.064, -80.721 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wheeling-wv-1986-2668bc
In context
- Wheeling, WV has 16 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 3 reports from West Virginia.
- The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.