UFOMYST
CaseChanging2013

Scott Depot, WV, USA

Small red/orange balls of light seemed to rise from behind the trees floating slowly up in the air and hovering changing shape several.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-24
Where
Scott Depot, WV, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.442, -81.917 · exact
Slug
changing-over-scott-depot-wv-2013-80b5a7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Scott Depot, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 58 sightings in 2013.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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