Williamstown, WV, USA
Looked up and caught a glimpse of a light moving faster than any plane I’ve ever seen. 2?? 3?? Times as fast. Covered the horizon dista
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-04
- Where
- Williamstown, WV, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 39.401, -81.448 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-williamstown-wv-2020-03d281
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
- Williamstown, WV has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 48 reports from West Virginia.
- The 2020s skewed 0.6% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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