Fairmont, WV, USA
Bright white object moving west to east. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of the ISS?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2013-06-19
- Where
- Fairmont, WV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5-6 minutes
- Geo
- 39.485, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fairmont-wv-2013-d1e44b
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
- Fairmont, WV shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from West Virginia in 2013.
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.