Elizabeth, WV, USA
((HOAX??)) Looked like a star that moved across the sky and flashed a white light and was gone.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 13s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-08-31
- Where
- Elizabeth, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 13 seconds
- Geo
- 39.063, -81.395 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-elizabeth-wv-2017-d4179f
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
- Elizabeth, WV shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from West Virginia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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