Martinsburg, WV, USA
Circular light rotating ccw in the sky above the clouds from 9:00 until 12:00. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising light? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-08-21
- Where
- Martinsburg, WV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 39.456, -77.964 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-martinsburg-wv-2010-65102d
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
- One of 28 documented reports from Martinsburg, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 21 sightings in 2010.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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