Bensrun, WV, USA
small light in evening sky moving in south to north path approx 50 to 100 miles ahead of aircraft flying south to north.The light was s
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-15
- Where
- Bensrun, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 39.466, -81.108 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bensrun-wv-1997-bc7747
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Bensrun, WV shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from West Virginia in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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