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West Virginia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 48 UFO sighting reports in West Virginia from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (16 reports, 33.33% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 18.75% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 27.08% of total).
- 03/05/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 6.25% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (29 reports, 60.42% of total).
West Virginia UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 West Virginia UFO reports from 2020, 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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Seen from old rt 10 on 3 mile curve. One disc like structure at high speed was witnessed to drop straight down behind tree line located between 3 mile curve and Rum Creek in Logan, WV. Both witnesses agree the disc or perfect circle due to rotation of UFO was a very light grayish silver color.
Not chrome in color though. One witness states seeing an orangish red exhaust coming from rear end immediately before seeming to drop behind trees and hit ground. Same witness states after 1 or 2 seconds of the UFOs disappearance, a twinkling trail began to appear in UFOs path lasted very briefly.
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Unexplained craft rising from the side of the mountain. There was 1 saucer shaped craft. I observed it rising into the air and hovering for approximately 15 minutes before I left the area.
The craft seemed to be light colored, saucer shaped, with something similar to fire, but white and blue in nature being emitted from the bottom. It almost appeared to have a rocket like appendage on the bottom. It rose rather quickly from the side of a mountain, the same mountain that my husband and I have seen other unusual things come from, and hovered the whole time that I sat and watched it.
I sat there for approximately 15 minutes before leaving. I am an currently unemployed teacher with a Master's in Reading Education. I'm 52 years old.
I'm a married white female. I do have photos and videos.
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The night of the above date my father and I were spending the night at Moundsville St Penn in West Virginia. I have been there before overnight, my life is very active with outside the norm . Upon inspection of the cell block I noticed on the second tier movement ( there is no electricity so it’s headlamps only ) I noticed AN EBE - standing still against a cell door.
It was making a weird clicking noise . My father mentioned his head was vibrating ( had us a combat veteran and basically deaf ) . My head was vibrating also .
It was making clicking noises with its fingers . I have lots of details and photos but I’ve been ridiculed. Mufon only took me half seriously.
I witnessed a solid object that night communicating and running.
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2 round objects in the sky. On Thursday 11/8/2020 at approximately 2 pm I was in the parking lot of a Speedway gas station in Huntington West Virginia, delivering fuel to the location. I was looking up to see if I could see any airplanes and noticed two white things that appeared to float in the air.
At first I thought they were pieces of paper or something floating the way paper ash floats in the air from a fire. But, there was no fire. These two objects were shiny.
I was wearing dark polarized sun glasses and could not see these objects at all when I took my sun glasses off. They seemed to spin or rotate because they went from being round looking to a straight line perpendicular to the ground and then back round again. I could not tell how big they were because there was nothing to reference them to.
At first they seemed to float, then one of them shot straight south really fast. The other one stopped and stayed motionless. The one that had zipped away stopped and zipped right back over to the one that stopped.
A normal airplane went by behind them and it was really slow compared to how fast they scooted across the sky. I did not hear any noise or sound from the objects. I watched them for another 30 seconds or so and they just went away.
The whole thing lasted maybe a minute and a half to two minutes. I have no idea what these things were but they were not anything I've ever seen or what I'd consider “normal” to see in the sky.
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For well over a month now I have been seeing these orange or bright LED orbs where I live. My neighbor up the road has seen and managed to catch almost the same unidentified objects on film also. Last night 11/4 I was startled with a close encounter.
I woke up in the middle of the night to let the animals out. When I swung open my front door I immediately seen at least 10 orbs hovering above my yard. I love in the country with very little neighbors close by, so it's always dark with no lights obstructing the view.
When I looked up at them they were floating or swaying down towards the ground real slow. These were orange in colored and would fade out when there was movement on the ground. This incident scared me and I immediately shut the door and curtains and went to our bedroom.
Normally I'll stay up and watch these orbs just to see what they do and make sure that I'm truly seeing what I'm seeing. I've mentioned to it to family members about these sightings! and everyone just brushes it off to be a plane which is so frustrating. So tonight I was outside putting firewood in our outdoor furnace and noticed 2 LED colored orbs across the road by the farm equipment hoovering.
There was 3 over in the field where the horses graze and 5 to my left further on up the road at my grandmother's farm where the cows are. Watching there movements is incredible. It's this graceful swaying at times to no movement.
The LED orbs are so bright it hurts your eyes to look at. I've pulled out binoculars to see what it could be and it's so bright. At times you can see them turning in circles when hoovering in one spot.
Almost like a flashlight turning with them. I was watching one hoovering in front of my neighbors window at night(she lives on top of the mountain, me in valley but at night now that leaves are off the trees I can see her lights coming from their living room. Mt husband and I literally watched this orb hoovering within eyesight of her w! indow.
We watched it come down from the sky and stay there for! well ov er 30 mins. It then slowly and gracefully lowered down into the valley and worked it's way over the cattle field also triggering a motion light as it passed right by. This particular orb wasn't no more than 30 feet from the ground.
The last thing I want to mention is, last night when I seen the ones hoovering in my front yard that scared me. Later that night 3am ish I seen this bright bright white light coming through my curtains. I glanced out the crack and saw 2 orbs hoovering above my truck.
It was so bright it lookws like the sun was shining. It was so crazy. I'm such a thrill seeker and get so excited seeing unexplained things such as these.
Buy lately, it's getting to close for comfort and now I'm just genuinely freaked out bc I have no clue what this is. We've been seeing these more frequently. And my husband is dumbfounded with no explanation on what we are seeing.
Before he would blow it off. But not now. We seem to always see orbs.
Orange and the bright LED color. ! We have watched blinking red crafts that stay in one spot for long periods of time and take off. These blinking ones defy the odds of being a plane or drone.
The movement has been incredibly fast and my neighbors has a video of a fleet. I've never seen anything like it in my life. I've reached out to my brothers who are in the military and they were amazed at what they seen to.
I would welcome a team of investigators to stay on our farm for 1 week to document and explain to us what we are seeing. And I'm not sure if this means anything but when we've tried to film with our cell phones our batteries drain so fast or our phones shut off even if they are at 50% battery life. Maybe its the temperature changes maybe not.
But this is the 2nd battery I've had to replace on my cell since spring of 2020.
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Object at Low Altitude Zigzagging My girlfriend was looking out the window because she thought she heard it started raining then seen a light. She went into the other window near the bathroom I was in and then seen the light zigzagging near a light pole near our place. She yelled for me to come look but I was peeing but stopped myself to go look as quick as I could.
I was about 2 steps away from the window before she said it vanished. She thought it was possibly police or someone with a flashlight but we went outside immediately after her sighting and there was nobody outside. I tried to recreate it with a few different flashlights but the light wasn’t solid and you could only see the beam.
I’m not skeptical but if I don’t see something firsthand then I suggest more scientific explanations first so I also suggested it being a drone but a drone wouldn’t just vanish and it’s not like she seen it in the sky. it was approximately 200 feet off the ground. My second thought was ball lighting but ! it wasn’t lighting or even raining and she said the shape was like a oval.
she also said it was similar size to a circular sled.
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Intergalactic ufo have a truly wide range of shape patterns lights size n distance never discount a shaky looking star of a Well I live in a very secluded area of wv and have seen ufos everywhere every night .I've seen square to disc with red,blue,white and some time green flashing lights.ive seen a ufo take off slotted pen point so close me and a friend could head it .
2020 is ufo crazy.
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Around 1am driving around kanawha city my girlfriend and I saw a white light with a green hue around it streaking down toward the ground west of Charleston at speeds i have never seen before from any other aircraft it did not make a sound or an explosion once out of sight due to buildings. We then went driving toward where we saw the object and found no other lights and nothing was over the 911 police scanner.
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Fireball like object seen in sky from Weston WV. At approximately about 10:15pm EST on Thursday 9-24-2020, as me and my daughter were out on our back porch talking, a large fireball like object , was spotted in the sky north east of Weston, WV. The object was seen rising in the north eastern sky, seeming growing larger, and then it floated towards the north for several thousand feet, and then seeming to fly off into the North Eastern sky.
All of this happened within about a minute of time. The fire ball from our prospective was much larger than any stars or planets in the skies. With the cloudy conditions in the area, made the planets of Jupitar, Saturn, and Mars are hard to see.
I am an avid sky watcher and even checked the Fight24 Radar app to see if there were any planes in the skies above us, and in that time there wasn’t anything over the skies of Weston for a 40 mile radius.
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UFO mother ship stalking me and one of its smaller ships coming close There is a big ship I see almost every night in the distance, Last night the one I see every night was in a different spot and looked like it had beams coming out of it and it was scanning for something. I went inside to watch from my window cause it was cold . I also was pointing my laser at it while looking at it threw my rifle scope, couldn’t find my binoculars.
anyway while inside it jumped from one spot to another really quick and it’s beams that were scanning pointed toward my yard so it made me look that way when I seen a smaller one in the shape of motor cycle helmet is best I can describe it with a bright blue light fly about 50 feet away from me straight past me. my step child was there with me when I ran out the door frantic to see it and she got to see it as well. she was laughing at me and her mother about the big shipboff in the distance a little earlier and now she believes and was just as freaked out as I am and my girlfriend is.
! the big ship i can see almost every night it is not close enough to get a picture of but binoculars can see it. It is triangle/ star shaped. I wish I had a telescope with a camera and someone to help.
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Crafts with Falling sparks Twenty-year-old reported that she saw what appeared to be sparks falling from a plane. Approximately five minutes later, two more adults witnessed the same thing. What appeared to be orange, yellow, and white sparked falling to the ground from an aircraft.
About two minutes later, the same three adults, two additional adults, and three children saw what looked like two spheres split from the first and hover for about 2 minutes. The three aircrafts appeared again in about 2 minutes. It appears that at least one of the crafts circled the area three or more times.
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Light travels fast then stops I went out to let my dogs out and i saw this light moving across the sky . Was'nt a plane , could have been a sat. I see these things all the time .
All's you have to do is look up . I've seen things in the past that were strange , such as , a light that would travel many miles then stop , then again it would travel a ways then stop again . This was seen by me and my son one night .
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Looked up and caught a glimpse of a light moving faster than any plane I’ve ever seen. 2?? 3?? Times as fast. Covered the horizon distance in 2 seconds.
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My husband and I were leaving from a storage shed that out friend is renting and we are storing some items in. As I was backing out into the road, I asked my husband if it were clear his way. He didn't answer.
I repeated again, more insistently, because his friend was right behind us in needing to pull onto the main road. He finally sais for me to stop and look over the mountain top in front of us. I said I couldn't because our friend needed out too.
He insisted, so I told him to let me pull into the wide spot beside the driveway we'd just backed out of. We pulled into the wide spot and I looked up and saw a huge bright bluish white light sitting just behind the mountaintop. I thought it was yhe moon and voiced my opinion.
My husband told me to take a good look again. By this time our friend pulled over too. We all sat and watched as the light changed shapes several times along with colors.
It reminded us of fire on a mountain except it moved in odd patterns, changed colors from white to bluish whiite to pink to yellow. It changed size from huge to small and back again. Its shape was a ball of light, a mushroom shape, and even appeared to separate into 2 and back into 1.
This went on for over a half hour. I took video, as best I could, considering it was on my cheap cell phone. We finally left.
As we were heading back into town, we kept looking behind us. We didn't see it any more. The 3 of us agreed that it had to be a UFO.
It was unlike anything we'd ever seen before.
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Friend called me ask me to go outside and look for a craft that was just hovering in the air it was there almost 10 minutes and never moved then clouds covered it and once they cleared never seen it again.
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witnessed a bright craft that appeared to be orange or amber in color. At first I thought it was a light or a star, but it started darting quickly in various directions very quickly. At on point it appeared to break into smaller parts or explode and then regenerate.
I video tapped the last couple minutes, it finally almost disappeared as it left even quicker than it had been when it was moving in various directions.
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There were two objects. A triangle shaped on heading east and dot of light heading west. When they heard each other the dot made a 90 degree course change and accelerated away.
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Unknown lights over Jefferson county wv Strange shape shifting lights flying in pattern. Did not appear to be any known aircraft. Ability to fly in different directions and after long period of time vanished into space and vanished.
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6 lights flying in formation while one avoided and object On the morning of Tuesday, July 21, 2020 while reviewing our motion alerts from overnight, at timestamp 4:36 AM, I noticed six lights that were flying (NE) in sync from the bottom right of the video. One came close to a bird feeder pole and slightly banked, then re-positioned as they continued flying. I have no clue what this and other recorded events like it were that followed for a few days after (July 21, 22, and 26).
Impressed though that it seemed to be able to react to an object in its path (the bird feeder pole) and adjust accordingly. This is an account that I witnessed through video footage within 2 hours of its occurrence. Night vision (non-color) on the camera sensed the movement but did not trigger the floodlight as larger objects would.
Therefore, I do not know if the objects had color. While flying away (at a distance of 16 feet from security camera to bird feeder pole) they appear to be rounded yet elongated and about 3 feet while in sync. Weather was clear, 76˚F, elevation appx.
410ft Video link of security camera footage UnidentiFied O #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOqS1btkDCw Side note…Not knowing if this is coincidental or not, also discovered that morning was a dead rabbit (to the left of the said bird feeder pole in this video and report) whose body was flat with clear-ish slime on it, however the head appeared to be untouched and fully shaped with no damage, eyes wide open and ears straight up.
No blood present and there appeared to be no bones. It also completely decomposed unusually fast and not able to tell anything had been there, within three days.
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Triangle of lights While on vacation watching the sky for shooting stars, we witnessed 3 stars/lights in a triangle moving slowly moving across the sky. It looked like stars so it was very high up which made it appear huge in size. The triangle stayed in a perfect shape as it moved.
West Virginia UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 16 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Circle | 6 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings From 2020 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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July | 9 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 14.58% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Thursday | 13 reported sightings | 27.08% of all reports |
Sunday | 11 reported sightings | 22.92% of all reports |
Tuesday | 6 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Saturday | 6 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/05/20 | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
06/07/20 | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
03/26/20 | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
09/04/20 | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
07/19/20 | 2 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
West Virginia UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 29 reported sightings | 60.42% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 8 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
All West Virginia Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in West Virginia, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in West Virginia
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in West Virginia.