Charleston, WV, USA
3 bright,orange objects with comet-like tails, movingtoward earth, then toward each other, thenhorizontally, east to s.west
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-11
- Where
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.350, -81.633 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-charleston-wv-1997-a0a1bf
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Charleston, WV.
- This case is one of 9 West Virginia reports filed in 1997.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% 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.