Chester, WV, USA
Observed steady, stationary red light in the sky for several minutes; pulsed & disappeared in 3-4 seconds
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- Chester, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.613, -80.563 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chester-wv-2009-934d9e
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
- Chester, WV shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 39 reports came from West Virginia in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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