Beaver, WV, USA
Large luminous cloud like object moved slowly across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Result of earlier missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-08-31
- Where
- Beaver, WV, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 37.748, -81.144 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-beaver-wv-2004-adb50e
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…
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Beaver, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 25 sightings in 2004.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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