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Philippi · WV, USA
A report from Philippi, WV in May 1974 described an object making repeated, inexplicable movements across the night sky following a thunderstorm, lasting 20 minutes.
Martinsburg · WV, USA
A report from Martinsburg, WV in July 1973 described a floating, disc-shaped object making numerous quick course changes, followed by an aircraft appearing to search the area, lasting 5 - 10 minutes.
Hillsboro · WV, USA
Largo red object sitting over a ridge. If indeed it was hovering over this ridge it was very large. Well over 100 feet. It attracted my
Danese · WV, USA
Witnesses in Danese, West Virginia reported an object at an estimated 1,500 mph that stopped instantly, showing bright search-light-like lights silently, for about five minutes in July 1971.
Genoa · WV, USA
Two siblings in Genoa, West Virginia reported a cigar-shaped object moving quietly and very slowly overhead for about five minutes in July 1971.
Lewisburg · WV, USA
A witness near Lewisburg, West Virginia, observed a triangular object hovering silently for about fifteen minutes one night in May 1971.
New Martinsville · WV, USA
A color-changing light was reported following a car near New Martinsville, West Virginia, in May 1971, for about ten minutes.
Ranson · WV, USA
Orange cylindrical/hexagonal, motionless object, emitting no sound, above the tree line. A rod descended from the bottom.
Anjean · WV, USA
We were standing by our car parked at Anjean, WV waiting for my brother after a good day of ruff grouse hunting. The first saucer came
Barboursville · WV, USA
Witnesses in Barboursville, West Virginia, reported a spherical object during a sighting lasting three to four minutes in the fall of 1967.
Weirton · WV, USA
Witnesses near Weirton, West Virginia, west of Pittsburgh, reported a green, glowing spherical object during a sighting lasting one to three minutes in the summer of 1967.
Hundred · WV, USA
Witnesses near Hundred, West Virginia, reported an oval-shaped object traveling across hills at moderate speed, illuminating treetops below during a 30-second sighting in September 1966.
Huntington · WV, USA
Witnesses near Huntington, West Virginia, reported a triangular object with red lights that moved from a hover to extremely high speed in an instant, observed in two towns in September 1966.
Huntington · WV, USA
Witnesses near Huntington, West Virginia, reported two circular objects that made sharp 90-degree turns without changing speed during a one-minute sighting in September 1966.
Milton · WV, USA
One light into two
Sistersville · WV, USA
Near Sistersville, West Virginia on July 15, 1965, witnesses described a fireball that appeared to drip flames without being consumed, visible for about twenty minutes.
St. Marys · WV, USA
A witness in St. Marys, West Virginia reported a white, disk-shaped object in the mid-1960s, in a sighting lasting about 20 seconds.
Frankford · WV, USA
Strobe lights and entities on ground.
Mount Hope · WV, USA
Object only visible as a streak of light at very high altitude traveled from horizon to horizon in a few seconds for a total of 6 times
Four States · WV, USA
In 1959, a witness in the Four States area of northern West Virginia reported mysterious red spherical lights in the sky, visible for about ten minutes.
Buffalo · WV, USA
In 1959, witnesses in Putnam County near Buffalo, West Virginia, reported two lights colliding or merging in the night sky, with debris said to be found the next day.
Talcott · WV, USA
A sphere that looked like a white light came across the horizon from West to East, an Air Force Jet followed about 3-4 sec later.
Mullens/Pineville · WV, USA
Witnesses near Mullens and Pineville, West Virginia believed USAF jets fired at or destroyed oval-shaped objects in the sky, in an incident lasting about three minutes in the late 1950s.
Upper Glade · WV, USA
A witness in rural Upper Glade, West Virginia reported a close-up sighting of an egg-shaped object for about five minutes around 1956.