CaseUnknown2022

WV, USA

4 aircraft reported, many pilots discussed on frequency. ((NUFORC Note: Report from /faa employee. Starlink satellites?? PD))

Report quality: Low20/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2022-04-21
Where
WV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Geo
Slug
unknown-over-wv-2022-d285fd
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

  • This case is one of 10 West Virginia reports filed in 2022.

Report

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