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West Virginia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 904 UFO sighting reports in West Virginia to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (192 reports, 21.24% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (101 reports, 11.17% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (167 reports, 18.47% of total).
- 08/13/16 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 0.33% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (63 reports, 6.97% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (453 reports, 50.11% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in West Virginia
These West Virginia UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Floating green orbs above tree line I was looking for my cat behind my apartment I noticed a green illumination and heard a faint humming near the wooded area across the creek at this point I looked up in to the trees my first thought was lightening bugs but it hasn't been warm enough for them these orbs seemed to notice I was looking at them and began to flee very panicked yet organized they moved quickly and the humming intensified they stayed low in the wooded area. I rule out drones due to the heavily wooded area and size of the objects very small but got bigger as they grouped together above the trees and strobed until disappearing. After seeing this I went back inside and remember nothing from that point I have a few lumps under my skin above my knee that where never there before.
I would rather talk in person I'm afraid to share my story and fear the government.
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It was late at night and i went to go take my dog out to use the bathroom and I saw a suspected ufo flying around my house It looked very big and fast.
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they were both stationary for the few minutes I watched and then they both flew straight up and through a cloud It's partly cloudy out. Somewhere over the cell tower there were two dark silver dots, which I first assumed were birds. I just happened to look up and see them and then I noticed it looked they they were stationary.
I then assumed it was some sort of optical illusion - maybe an airplane at the perfect angle - but they stayed the same for about two minutes, based upon the last text I sent before I looked up, until the time I looked back down at my phone. They did not move or change shape or color. suddenly, they both went up higher and through a cloud and I lost sight of them.
I waited to see if they'd return, but they disappeared. I went back to the same vantage point after the sky cleared up more and there is nothing there over the cell tower. no maintenance being completed, no overhead wires, nothing that would be mistaken for what I saw.
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My captain and I saw moving stars. Looked kinda like satellites. First off this is apparently a very common sighting among pilots at my airline.
I am new and this was my first time seeing it. Last night we were flying from Florida to NY. We were at 33,000’, and over beckley airport in WV.
My captain pointed out to me the thing four other captains had mentioned previously. This was my first time seeing it. On about a 320 bearing from our present position he pointed out a star he told me to watch.
It stayed completely unchanged for about 10 seconds, and suddenly disappeared instantaneously. Then it reappeared about two inches to the right of my perspective, but dimmer. Then it started moving subtly down the windshield while simultaneously getting brighter and brighter until it dwarfed the brightness of all other stars in the sky.
It also appeared to get bigger, as if it was accelerating toward us. It instantaneously disappeared again. This process repeated over the next hour.
It moved up, down, sideways, and sometimes completely still. The speed at which it climbed and descended tens of thousands of feet made use know it was not an airplane. Sometimes there would be two or three of them at once.
They did not act in sync. They all seemed to move, dissapear, and reappear randomly. From the reports of other pilots, it seems that these things showed up about a year ago and have been showing up consistently.
They can be seen almost any clear night when you have view of the western skyline from the east coast. I do not know if they are visible from the ground. My guess is they originate from the same spot because I saw them from a 330 bearing in WV, but other people tell me they are usually on a 270 bearing from NY, which seems to line up.
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Watched it float in just one spot for around 5 minutes from my car then it just disappeared. My wife and I were going to the grocery store and I noticed something that looked weird in the sky. We watched it for a few minutes and then it just disappeared.
We didn’t see it after that.
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Subject was passenger in car when observed object in western sky out passenger side. Photo taken with phone through window.
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We have had sightings nightly for 3 or 4 nights now but this has occurred for years here There's so many close encounters we've had these things in our home, I've had missing time, lost consciousness when being told w telepathy what window to find then out of. The spheres grow in size, interact w us, look so magical at times. Not sure why we've been chosen to be allowed to see the phenomenon, but we feel blessed by being able to know about the truth.
Once I was fully paralyzed in my bed and a entity was in my bedroom. I had bloody hollow holes in my belly from it next day. These ufos seem to be on a important mission on this ridge.
I see them go in and out. We have seen a huge flying being watching us and he/she allowed us to get clear photos and video of it flying into the woods. I wish someone would come get data off all these sightings.
Ben missed to learn more about this amazing phenomenon and why we have Ben chosen to see thus and interact w them.
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UFO sighting at 1:23 pm eastern time, November 23, 2023. I saw a white object segmented into 2 with dark ring dividing, white glow around outside, moved slowly maybe at a standstill until I noticed and started taking pictures, then sped up, slowed down again, sped up. This slow and fast speed occurred about three times before disappearing! I watched this for about 20 minutes.
Clear blue sky with no clouds in sight.
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It was a flying work truck with double tool boxes on each side I couldn’t make out what it was until I saw the brake lights when it passed. It was a work truck the kind with a single cab and took boxes running down each side of the bed almost like a rectangle. Latter Rack on top.
Was literally like in Harry Potter and driving the flying car. I almost passed out. This is now my 2nd sighting in 3 years …mount Hope wv.
I also have physical issues that need to be investigated.
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Bright lights moving around, could see glowing from going above and through our clouds I was at my friend’s house out in the middle of the woods, away from main roads. I went outside to pee because they’re in the process of building their house, and through the trees I noticed this bright light in the distance moving around and getting smaller then bigger. I watched it for a minute and got scared and tried to get everyone’s attention.
Nobody cared. So I went back outside and started watching the sky again, and my friend was with me. I started seeing two to six lights like stars with a glow around them, (from the clouds, coming through our atmosphere and back out, no other stars had a glow like that) moving around in one direction and then it would change and go another direction, there was some that would morph into each other, circle each other and then become one, they would go away completely and then come back in different spots.
There was one that would get extremely bright, and would move around and then I could see a cloud of light then it would disappear again, then come back in a different spot and move around. I watched these in the sky for about two hours. I watch the night sky every night and have for about 3 years now.
I’ve never seen anything like this. I know what Venus and Jupiter look like and where they’re at, I know what starlink looks like, I know what planes, satellites and drones look like, these were none of these things. To me, from my perspective on the ground, all I could see were lights but they maneuvered around and looked like some sort of vehicle in the sky with a bright light on them to see.
They could turn these lights off and on also. There was intelligent thought in the way they maneuvered. I could tell these things were going in and out of our atmosphere extremely fast for as high up it was, and they were looking at our ground here.
I know this sounds insane but I’m a fairly intelligent person and I’ve been watching the stars for a long time and I’ve never seen anything like this.
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There were flashing lights everywhere in the night sky. I have video of them There were over a hundred flashing lights everywhere in the night sky.
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Was at river. Saw a stationary flash start moving ironically. Then it reversed directions, and remained stationary for a few minututes.
Before a plane with bright lights came towards it and the object went behind the cloud. Cloud cleared the object was gone.
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I was playing bat sounds and watching bats flying and saw a round almost see through object but it was also reflecting light it was like a round object almost like see through but with color at the same time orangish pink I was playing bat sounds on my phone watching bats flying when I observed it just moving across the sky at 1st I was like that's not the sun that's not the moon and I went to turn my camera on and poof it was gone it was like you could see through it I don't know how to explain it.
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Bright white light weaving back and forth in the sky above us. My boyfriend and I were sitting in my car in my driveway talking after we came home late one night, around 1:30am. We noticed a light that was bobbing and weaving all around as it came up over the eastern tree line back past my pond, about 200 yards from where we were parked.
It proceeded to fly over to where we were parked at and hover in the air almost directly above us, I would have to guess and say it was maybe 100 feet in the air but close enough for us to use binoculars to see the triangle shaped bright white light with 2 red lights, one on each side of the top point. It's probably 4 or 5 feet at its widest point. We could hear a loud buzzing sound the entire time it was present.
A few times it shined a beam of light down like it was looking for something. We watched this strange light for hours. I downloaded a sky map and it wasnt showing up on it.
We also noticed lots of birds were chirping loudly the whole time it was there too. We continued to watch it until daylight when it started to get higher in the sky until it disappeared. It has came back every night since and we watch it every night.
It comes up over the back treeline by my pond and will come so close to us and hover there moving back and forth in the air all night until daybreak then it leaves. We have pictures and videos but not very good quality because they were taken on a phone sitting inside my car.
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Glowing rocket shaped craft I work overnight at a hotel. Right after daylight I walked outside. I look up and I noticed what I first thought was a plane.
I noticed there is no exhaust or sound and it seems to be glowing. I watch it for probably less than a minute. I see it going above clouds and coming back into view.
What was clearly a rocket or some other elongated shape suddenly became a dot and disappeared as if it shot into space.
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I was looking at the big dipper and seen this light intensify for several seconds and it slowly faded away. This white light that appeared in the sky. At first I thought might be a satellite.
But this time of night there are no satellites that bright in the sky. I kept my eye on this. The light did not move.
But it started to slowly fade away. After it faded away was when I extended hands. If I put my pinky finger on the big dipper handle and widened my fingers and my thumb would be where this light was.
I did shine a flashlight up to the area to see if there was something there but nothing was there.
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Fast moving light, flashed twice, then disappeared We were sitting outside when a light in the sky flashed brightly, then dimmed and moved quickly across the sky. It flashed again and then vanished.
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Metallic orb flew over our house - silently and at low altitude Sitting on back deck in early evening. Watching planes overhead and tracking with Flight Tracker app. Noticed an object coming towards us.
It seemed to be a low altitude, but I would be guessing - maybe around 2,000-3,000 feet. It was low enough and close enough to the ground that we could visibly see it spinning. It was a round, shiny silver orb that seemed to have small fins on it that would glisten in the sun.
That was how we knew it was spinning - we could literally see it turning. It flew very smoothly, in a straight line, directly over our house from south-east to north-west and out of sight. No sound.
No blinking lights. No exhaust or contrail. I took a video which I will try to upload.
If you zoom in on the video, you can see the object get bright and dark as it spins. It was not a plane - I checked the flight tracker app. It was not the ISS, it came over (north to south) several hours later.
I am familiar with rocket bodies, comets, balloons, etc as I track a lot of things in the sky. This was completely different and very much what I have heard described by other sightings of metallic orbs. It was unlike anything I have ever seen.
My wife experienced the same thing I did and she is a huge skeptic of UAP/UFOs. If my video uploads, check out the second object that appears to come from the top of the screen and pass the main object at the :24 second mark - could be a bug, but we only caught it by going frame by frame. UGH - I can't upload the video - that's all I have.
If you'd like to email me, I will gladly share it. It's certainly not a fantastic video, but you can see the object spinning by the sun/dark/sun pattern. "Honey, there's a UFO - grab my worst camera!" Ha ha!.
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Observed an erratic moving light in the sky shaped like an elongated oval over Dulles Airport Upon leaving Dulles International Airport and as I was headed to my car of the parking garage at 9:29 PM, I observed and erratic moving light shaped like an elongated oval darting through the sky. I took a video of it because I was fascinated by this random object. During the video capture, one other woman, whom I did not know, observed the same object and joked it must be a UFO.
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3 orbs/fireballs in triangular formation flew silently at mountain top level. Made no noise, made 90° left turn and disappeared At around 10 at night, I stepped out of my backdoor, facing the Guyandotte River. I looked up and saw the UFO(s).
Three large red/orange orbs or "fireballs" in triangular formation, with what looked like fire dancing between the three well defined orbs. The UFO was at the level of the treetops on the mountain facing my home, far below the clouds. I could not see any surface (ex such as the surface of a craft or crafts) connecting the lights.
It flew slowly overhead, making no noise. I thought to myself that it was very strange, and then the UFO made a perfect 90 degree left turn and faded away. There was no sound or trail of object.
There is zero possibility this was a conventional aircraft such as a plane or a helicopter. Again it made no noise, and I was close enough that I would have seen and heard the shape of the hypothetical plane or helicopter. I remember seeing the stars in the night sky, this object was certainly not a star.
It could not have been a meteor as there was no trail and the object made a perfect L shaped turn. I was not under the influence of any substances, nor do I suffer from hallucinations. I was wide awake, this was not a dream.
I included a digital drawing of the object, as well as the exact direction I was facing when I saw it. I hope this can be of some help. I would have reported sooner, but I tried to rationalize all the possibilities and nothing makes sense.
I apologize that I can't provide the exact date and time, but I know it was the week of May 8th 2023. Thank you .
West Virginia UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 192 reported sightings | 21.24% of all reports |
Circle | 106 reported sightings | 11.73% of all reports |
Triangle | 95 reported sightings | 10.51% of all reports |
Unknown | 75 reported sightings | 8.30% of all reports |
Other | 58 reported sightings | 6.42% of all reports |
Disk | 50 reported sightings | 5.53% of all reports |
Fireball | 49 reported sightings | 5.42% of all reports |
Sphere | 47 reported sightings | 5.20% of all reports |
Oval | 43 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Cylinder | 29 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
Formation | 24 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
Changing | 19 reported sightings | 2.10% of all reports |
Cigar | 18 reported sightings | 1.99% of all reports |
Rectangle | 10 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Diamond | 10 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Egg | 10 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Flash | 10 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Chevron | 10 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Teardrop | 7 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Orb | 6 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
Cross | 4 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.22% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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August | 101 reported sightings | 11.17% of all reports |
July | 99 reported sightings | 10.95% of all reports |
June | 96 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
September | 89 reported sightings | 9.85% of all reports |
November | 81 reported sightings | 8.96% of all reports |
March | 69 reported sightings | 7.63% of all reports |
October | 66 reported sightings | 7.30% of all reports |
April | 66 reported sightings | 7.30% of all reports |
May | 56 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
February | 55 reported sightings | 6.08% of all reports |
December | 49 reported sightings | 5.42% of all reports |
January | 47 reported sightings | 5.20% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 167 reported sightings | 18.47% of all reports |
Friday | 134 reported sightings | 14.82% of all reports |
Thursday | 130 reported sightings | 14.38% of all reports |
Sunday | 126 reported sightings | 13.94% of all reports |
Tuesday | 116 reported sightings | 12.83% of all reports |
Wednesday | 107 reported sightings | 11.84% of all reports |
Monday | 94 reported sightings | 10.40% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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08/13/16 | 3 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
07/04/09 | 3 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
03/05/20 | 3 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
08/31/04 | 3 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
08/31/13 | 3 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 453 reported sightings | 50.11% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 144 reported sightings | 15.93% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 124 reported sightings | 13.72% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 58 reported sightings | 6.42% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 51 reported sightings | 5.64% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 44 reported sightings | 4.87% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in West Virginia
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in West Virginia
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in West Virginia