All Reported UFO Sightings in Parkersburg, West Virginia

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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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Triangular light formation seen hovering above water tower on my drove home As I was driving home the evening of April 18, 2022 I noticed a triangular formation of lights hovering above a water tower (circled in red within attached photo) nearly straight ahead (purple X in attached photo is where I first noticed the craft). These three lights were orange, the color being similar to the fruit of the same name. These lights slightly illuminated the top of the water tower's tank.

The body of the craft was hardly visible, and remained in place, completely still for nearly 5 minutes time. After, the lights faded away with no audible sound and was nowhere to be seen. I am familiar with common and most military aircraft.

Formerly in the US Army.

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While looking in the sky in the southern direction at either Jupiter or Saturn (orange star) from my position 39.292850 -81.542600, I seen a yellow light traveling in a straight line, east to west under the orange star and the light was bigger than the orange star.

The yellow light appeared to have a deliberate course and was straight. While I was watching, the light vanished/went away. It did not extinguish or go out but stopped.

I looked to see if it would reappear following with my eye it's trajectory, but it did not reappear. No clouds in sky to hide light. No sound from traveling light.

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8 Extremely bright lights move across the horizon in unison in a matter of 2 minutes or less Walked out to let my dogs out .looked up to the North star and seen a light extremely high in the horizon but extremely bright. But as I watched I seen 7 more directly behind the other spaces perfectly.

The crafts went from one side of the horizon to the other in a matter of 1.5-2 minutes.

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I saw a series of 10-12 bright orange lights rise silently into the sky and move northeast over the course of about 15 minutes. At approximately 20:10, I saw a bright orange light appear on the horizon (which is a hilltop from my vantage point) at roughly 270 degrees. It rose into the sky and proceeded to move northeast.

I would guess that it's altitude was at least 1000 feet. When it reached a bearing of about 30 degrees, another identical light rose, again at about 270 degrees, to approximately the same altitude and moving at about the same speed (as far as I could tell). I could perceive no noise from the lights; there was traffic moving on the road below me which was fairly noisy, but even when that fell quiet I could not hear any noise from the lights.

The lights remained steady in color and intensity; I could observe no strobes nor navigation lights. The pattern of lights rising at 270 degrees an proceeding northeast continued for about 15 minutes. As they made their way northeast, their altitude varied, with the highest no more than 50% higher than the lowest.

At least twice, two lights rose at the same time and separated somewhat as they moved northeast. My observation was interrupted for about 3 minutes, as I went inside to get my phone at about 20:15. I didn't have the presence of mind to keep a good count, but I know there were at least 10 lights, but more likely 12.

I do have a few minutes of iPhone video, but it is too large to email conventionally - I'll attempt to send it via an iCloud dropbox.

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Spotted a strange blinking object in the sky. upon observation we see a bright object move by it very fast then disappear. while investigating, we see 3 more blinking objects in a triangle formation.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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6 objects flying from WV across the Ohio river moving into different formations with no noise and fast. At 11:45 Jan 30, 2016. I had just parked my car and got to the top of my stairs, when I looked up and seen 6 objects in a somewhat circle pattern formation flying across the sky above Grand Central Mall in Vienna, going north into Ohio.

This was directly above the Ohio River. The sky was clear in places but they flew in or below the clouds. I seen them do things our planes cant do.

They moved eradic in their formation. They then split into two teams of 3 and went into 2 triangle formations. I've spent my life looking at the night sky.

I've seen satellites and the space station several times and thousands of falling stars. These things were dim L.E.

D looking lights and they were longated. They moved faster than anything man maid and they didnt make a sound. I kinda wish that I wouldn't have seen them.

Did anyone else see them? They were not hiding. What does it mean? Anyway they were not large crafts. Please post if you seen them also.

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Just as I looked up at the moon I saw a triangular shadow moving slightly below the moon. I could only see the shadow of it as it passed below the moon as it was not lit itself. It only lasted around 6-8 seconds.

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Several lights seen over Parkersburg, WV While at work in Parkersburg, I stepped outside around 9:45pm to talk on the phone to a friend. During the conversation, I looked in the direction of US50 and initially saw four orange lights in a triangle shape, heading in a south east to north west direction. After a minute or so, I saw four to five more lights appear, and all changed direction to the north.

After around 5 minutes, all the lights had disappeared, no obstructions to block view before the dissapearence. The objects appeared to be over US 50/I-77, and maybe 1,00 feet or more in the air.

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Large bright white light traveling quicky in the Northwest sky I was getting ready for bed and around 1:15 my dog wanted to go outside. I let her out and waited about 15 minutes then started for the back door and noticed a big white light through the window. My first thought was that it was a street light and maybe the storm had knocked down trees that normally block them on the next street over.

When I opened the door I saw the light was over the trees and moving very fast traveling East in the Northwest sky making no sound. It was as large and bright as a streetlight! I watched it for several seconds until it was blocked by a neighbor's tree. I ran inside to grab my phone and headed out the front door but it was gone.

I went back in and out the backdoor to get my dog and she would not come to me. She was crying and would not come out from underneath the house. I finally had to coax her to come out.

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Hovering red light over Parkersburg While driving home heading south within city limits we noticed a bright red light hovering(it was stationary) in the sky above. At first it appeared to resemble a low air craft as earlier there was a low flying helicopter. However this light was not moving and we noticed it wasn't making any sounds.

After remaining stationary for several seconds the light started to fade (wife says fizzle)then it changed to a bright white light and then faded and vanished.

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I observed May 14, 2013 at 20:15hrs, 1 white cigar shaped object 20ft or more in length flying at low altitude (no jet stream) at constant rate of speed in northern direction over Parkersburg,Wood County, West Virginia. What struck me as odd was it had no wings, visible markings or lights. This was observed by three people.

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bright orange light moves rapidly across the sky and dissappears suddenly, three witnesses. Witnessed one very bright orange light, moving rapidly, cross over the moon. I saw it and lept from my chair shouting, "what the heck is that, what the heck is that!!" ran across the yard, watching it the whole time and then it just dissappeared.

Nobody heard a sound, it was deffiently not a plane or helicopter.ive never seen anything like that before.

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Object made 3 - 90 degree turns and then disappeared. Object blinking red and white lights very fast was seen heading West, then North, then East, and then South before disappearing. The object could not be made out because it was to high up, however, as it changes each direction it was done in a 90 degree turn.

They were not rounded turns in any sense of the way - straight out right angles. We watched it for about a minute, it then turned and traveled for about thirty seconds or so each time before turning again, and after the third turn we watched it for about 20 seconds and it just disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Original date was flawed.

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Bright white light flying in the sky, hovering and diapeared before our eyes We were standing outside talking, when we saw a round light in the sky. It got really bright and was flying over us high in the sky. It changed directions a couple of times and flew backwards.

It seemed like it hovered or slowed down and was in one spot. It got brighter and faded to nothing right before our eyes. We didn't think it could be a plane because you can always see the flashing lights.

((NUFORC Note: Satellite?? PD)).

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2 Witness's Saw A Stationary Object Hovering Near A Cell Phone Tower. "Object was Hugh" Changed from Red To Amber Color "No Sound" Was Driving On Rt.50 Traveling East from Parkersburg, WV.

Wife Was Driving, She At First Didn't See The Strange Object, I Hollered What The Heck Is That, She let Off The Gas, We Were Traveling 65 MPH, There Is A Cell Phone tower On The West Bound Side of the Highway Up The Hill About A Hundred Feet From The Road,With Red Lights At The Top And In The Middle. Object was Located about 100 feet from the tower. I asked My Wife to stop the Truck, I was going to get out to get a better View.

She slowed down to about 5 MPH But Did not Completely Stop. I Saw a Object that was Triangular Shaped, That went up into a peak, "What I Mean By That" It Appeared to Be Two Stories Tall, With A Smaller section on Top With A White Light At The Top. When I First saw this UFO it was red, It Then changed to a Amber Color with lights Rotating around the Bottom of the Craft, It Appeared to have White lights on the second Level.

Object was Black Metal Looking Had Criss Cross Looking Patterns on the Bottom, Was Making No Sound. I was Telling My Wife Who By This Time Is Screaming OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, She Then Floored The Gas And MY Truck which has never done this before DID NOT want to go, We Finally Took Off, All The while I was Watching out the Back Glass With My Wife Screaming Is It Following Us. This Happened This Morning 02/10/08 Time Was 1:59Am.

My Wife Said she looked at the time, Just As we Saw This UFO. The Ufo was Lower Than the Cell Ph. Tower.

Would Also Like to add The UFO Was Hovering It Was Not Moving At All Except The Rotating lights on the bottom.

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It looked like a red ball of fire falling from the sky. when it hit the ground glowed red for about 15 seconds then went out like someone switched a light switch. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

We do not know if this report is intended to be serious. PD)).

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saw a ufo on the way to school near a cow field. The object at first apeared to be a plane and i live by an airport and can tell when a plane is moving to slow to stay airbourne, in fact this space craft was still to the human eye, and was extremely low to the ground. The craft was oval in shape and appeared to have numerous windows, and had 2 parts one was the main structure and the other seemed like a observation deck.

It was gray/silver in color. The area in which i observated the craft was over a hill near a field with cows and a winding creek near a church. The object turned towards our car and jerked like a pendulum as if it were gaining momentum and shot towards the sky to be unseen again.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Cigar shaped silver shining object seen in clear daytime sky. It was a warm day for February, around 55 degrees. My nephew was on my roof cleaning out the gutters, that is the only reason I was looking up, I was watching him on the roof (he is 21).

I saw it first, really moving FAST, coming from the south-east and heading north-west. It was huge, it appeared to be silver, and very bright, as if light was being shined on it, it had no lights, nothing flashing, no sound, and no tail or jetstream. It was huge and we could see it very well, as the sky was clear.

It had no front or rear, and no windows, it's entire shape was the same. As soon as I saw it, I asked my nephew what it was, he looked and we both watched it. As it started to get out of our vision, a jet was coming toward us from the north (it had a fuel trail as a jet does), these two objects were going to cross paths and were nearly side by side at one point.

The jet was high in the sky and tiny (although you could tell that it had wings), and this thing was four or five times longer than the jet. I am stunned to say the least, we really have no clue what it is we saw.

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the object gave off a light that illuminated the entire sky then disapated completely. On the above listed approx. date and time i was on patrol in the northern end of the city parked running radar in the 2600 blk of dudley ave.

At the approx time listed i observed a bright blue light that illuminated the entire sky that lasted for approx. 5 seconds. the blue light immediately turned to a bright green color that lasted approx 5 more seconds.

the light then suddenly stopped at which time it was as if nothing had happened. another officer who was approx 16 city blocks away (approx 3 miles) then asked the other units working if they had witnessed the incident. myself along with 2-3 other officers advised him he had.

our dispatcher then advised they were recieving a heavy amount of calls from civilians reporting the strange lights that illuminated the sky. the shift superviser then contacted the state police detachment in charleston, which is an hour away from parkersburg, and was advised the had also recieved multiple reports of the same lights. the officer that had spoken on the radio asking if others had witnessed the light advised me he saw a ball of light that was blue,changed to green, then dissipated completely.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD)).