UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2010

Martinsburg, WV, USA

huge blue light 50-80 feet wide in sky that lasted 3-6 seconds.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-10-09
Where
Martinsburg, WV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
39.456, -77.964 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-martinsburg-wv-2010-c44276
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 28 documented reports from Martinsburg, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • West Virginia logged 21 sightings in 2010.

Report

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