UFO Sightings in West Virginia
851 UFO sightings reported in West Virginia since 1944, peaking in 2012 (63 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 851
- Span
- 1944–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (63 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1944–2022 · peak 2012 (63 reports)
Top cities in West Virginia
Huntington
1966–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Morgantown
1978–2022 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Charleston
1997–2022 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Martinsburg
1973–2020 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Parkersburg
1980–2021 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Beckley
1984–2021 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Wheeling
1986–2013 · peak 2004 (5 reports)
Clarksburg
1979–2022 · peak 2011 (2 reports)
Princeton
2001–2021 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Barboursville
1967–2018 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Fairmont
1995–2016 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Hedgesville
1996–2019 · peak 2005 (2 reports)
Moundsville
1998–2020 · peak 1998 (3 reports)
Hurricane
1997–2019 · peak 2016 (2 reports)
Lewisburg
1971–2021 · peak 2014 (2 reports)
Summersville
1999–2019 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Fayetteville
2010–2020 · peak 2013 (2 reports)
Weirton
1956–2022 · peak 2022 (3 reports)
Milton
1966–2014 · peak 2000 (2 reports)
Oak Hill
1996–2021 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Charleston · WV, USA
A bright green fireball flew across the sky. It was about the size of the full moon and looked much brighter.
Moundsville · WV, USA
I was scanning the night sky with 7x50 binoculars when I noticed a light much higher than commercial aircraft usually fly.
Fort Gay · WV, USA
i saw what i saw and it was not of this world !
Moundsville · WV, USA
Bright, slow-moving, star-like light
Oak Hill · WV, USA
Oak Hill Triangle Lights
Hurricane · WV, USA
I was riding in the car and looked out the window. I then saw a circle about as big as a full moon flash across the sky and the disappe
Parkersburg (10 miles south of Ohio/W.Virginia Border near) · WV, USA
Observed silent, slow moving craft moving in Northeasterly direction. Lost sight as it moved over hills.
Reedsville · WV, USA
I saw the triangle lights more than once
Bensrun · WV, USA
small light in evening sky moving in south to north path approx 50 to 100 miles ahead of aircraft flying south to north.The light was s
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))
South Charleston (near) · WV, USA
lost time traveling on a highway
Lashmeet · WV, USA
I saw a gray hazy metallic triangle shaped object with 3 blue lights and an appearance of being transparent in form.
Charleston · WV, USA
3 bright,orange objects with comet-like tails, movingtoward earth, then toward each other, thenhorizontally, east to s.west
Elkins · WV, USA
Man witnesses large, brilliantly bright, silver-white light, size of a full moon, passing overhead. Obj. flashed, then disappeared.
Cowen · WV, USA
I was lieing in my bed when.........
Richwood · WV, USA
Monongahelia National Forest/Marlingto Road UFO Formation sighting.
Beckley · WV, USA
Silent, low flying helicopter with light scanning below
Oak Hill · WV, USA
Burning glowing sphere(sparks)
Buckhannon · WV, USA
A rather large triangular shaped disk was noticed about 800 yards away hovering at the level of tree tops. Me and a friend began to ex
Hedgesville · WV, USA
disk shape object with beam
Huntington · WV, USA
Man sees very large obj. in sky with "circle of lights" on ventral side. Obj. suddenly "turned on a dime," flies in different dir..
Huntington · WV, USA
Young man & grandfather see a "large, orange, round or oval" obj. move along horizon very fast, hover, move erratically. Bizarre!
Alum Creek · WV, USA
Alum Creek
Huntington · WV, USA
Decades ago CNN broadcast alien contact — covered up
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