Wheeling, WV, USA
Lasted for about 3-5 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-27
- Where
- Wheeling, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.064, -80.721 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wheeling-wv-2004-9fe78a
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…
Local cluster
Wheeling, WV logged 3 reports in the single month of June 2004.
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Wheeling, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 25 sightings in 2004.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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