CaseLight2020

South Charleston, WV, USA

Strand of lights perfectly spaced moving in unison across the sky. I counted over 20 crafts. ((Starlink satellites?))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-27
Where
South Charleston, WV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5min
Geo
38.368, -81.700 · exact
Slug
light-over-south-charleston-wv-2020-a6ebcb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • South Charleston, WV shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 48 reports came from West Virginia in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.