Lewisburg, WV, USA
Out gazing at the meteor shower and spotted a weird set of steady orange lights to the south of us approx 5 miles moving slowly to the
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-12
- Where
- Lewisburg, WV, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.802, -80.446 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-lewisburg-wv-2015-88740c
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Lewisburg, WV.
- This case is one of 55 West Virginia reports filed in 2015.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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