Charleston, WV, USA
statinary object,strange plasma lights that moved slowly from left to right, not airplane, maybe satelite
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-17
- Where
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.350, -81.633 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-charleston-wv-2008-27600c
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
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Charleston, WV.
- This case is one of 32 West Virginia reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.