UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Beckley, WV, USA

2 orange lights in Beckley, WV moving east to west staying just above tree line and moving at the speed of a plane

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-19
Where
Beckley, WV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.778, -81.188 · exact
Slug
light-over-beckley-wv-2017-aa0f0c
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 16 documented reports from Beckley, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 23 sightings in 2017.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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