Beckley, WV, USA
Me and my mother along with my 2 kids and my sister's two kids were outside roasting marshmallow when I happen to look up at the sky li
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-14
- Where
- Beckley, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.778, -81.188 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-beckley-wv-2019-ab8ca6
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
- Beckley, WV has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 40 reports from West Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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