UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Morgantown, WV, USA

Orange light over cheat lake

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Morgantown, WV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Approx. 3 minutes
Geo
39.630, -79.956 · exact
Slug
circle-over-morgantown-wv-2012-9e8bb5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Morgantown, WV has 40 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 63 reports from West Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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