Light UFO Sightings in West Virginia
184 light-shaped UFO sightings reported in West Virginia since 1959, peaking in 2020 (16 reports).
- Total sightings
- 184
- Span
- 1959–2021
- Peak year
- 2020 (16 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1959–2021 · peak 2020 (16 reports)
Shepherdstown · WV, USA
saw a bright white flashing (2-3 sec intervals) light in a field approx. 40 ft in the air. object was stationary. ((anonymous report))
Wheeling · WV, USA
Was out in backyard stargazing I guess you could say, when I notice what looked like a bright star, and that's what I thought it was to
Dolly Sods · WV, USA
Strange Lights in Dolly Sods.
Wheeling · WV, USA
Missing time after seeing something that looked like the Northern lights.
Lost Creek · WV, USA
Two lights moving slowly at tree top level around our house with no sound.
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.
Milton · WV, USA
One light into two
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.
New Martinsville · WV, USA
At 5:30pm EST, I was pulling from a side street onto Rt#2 north when i saw what at first appeared to be a star. I stopped my car after