Fayetteville, WV, USA
We were sitting on rt 19sb waiting for fireworks to begin. I first noticed the red light around 9:15 mixed in the tree line. Exactly
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Fayetteville, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45
- Geo
- 38.053, -81.104 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fayetteville-wv-2014-6b225a
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
- Fayetteville, WV shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from West Virginia in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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