UFO Sightings in West Virginia
851 UFO sightings reported in West Virginia since 1944, peaking in 2012 (63 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 851
- Span
- 1944–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (63 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1944–2022 · peak 2012 (63 reports)
Top cities in West Virginia
Huntington
1966–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Morgantown
1978–2022 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Charleston
1997–2022 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Martinsburg
1973–2020 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Parkersburg
1980–2021 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Beckley
1984–2021 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Wheeling
1986–2013 · peak 2004 (5 reports)
Clarksburg
1979–2022 · peak 2011 (2 reports)
Princeton
2001–2021 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Barboursville
1967–2018 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Fairmont
1995–2016 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Hedgesville
1996–2019 · peak 2005 (2 reports)
Moundsville
1998–2020 · peak 1998 (3 reports)
Hurricane
1997–2019 · peak 2016 (2 reports)
Lewisburg
1971–2021 · peak 2014 (2 reports)
Summersville
1999–2019 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Fayetteville
2010–2020 · peak 2013 (2 reports)
Weirton
1956–2022 · peak 2022 (3 reports)
Milton
1966–2014 · peak 2000 (2 reports)
Oak Hill
1996–2021 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Weirton · WV, USA
Witnesses near Weirton, West Virginia, west of Pittsburgh, reported a green, glowing spherical object during a sighting lasting one to three minutes in the summer of 1967.
Hundred · WV, USA
Witnesses near Hundred, West Virginia, reported an oval-shaped object traveling across hills at moderate speed, illuminating treetops below during a 30-second sighting in September 1966.
Huntington · WV, USA
Witnesses near Huntington, West Virginia, reported a triangular object with red lights that moved from a hover to extremely high speed in an instant, observed in two towns in September 1966.
Huntington · WV, USA
Witnesses near Huntington, West Virginia, reported two circular objects that made sharp 90-degree turns without changing speed during a one-minute sighting in September 1966.
Milton · WV, USA
One light into two
Sistersville · WV, USA
Near Sistersville, West Virginia on July 15, 1965, witnesses described a fireball that appeared to drip flames without being consumed, visible for about twenty minutes.
St. Marys · WV, USA
A witness in St. Marys, West Virginia reported a white, disk-shaped object in the mid-1960s, in a sighting lasting about 20 seconds.
Frankford · WV, USA
Strobe lights and entities on ground.
Mount Hope · WV, USA
Object only visible as a streak of light at very high altitude traveled from horizon to horizon in a few seconds for a total of 6 times
Four States · WV, USA
In 1959, a witness in the Four States area of northern West Virginia reported mysterious red spherical lights in the sky, visible for about ten minutes.
Buffalo · WV, USA
In 1959, witnesses in Putnam County near Buffalo, West Virginia, reported two lights colliding or merging in the night sky, with debris said to be found the next day.
Talcott · WV, USA
A sphere that looked like a white light came across the horizon from West to East, an Air Force Jet followed about 3-4 sec later.
Mullens/Pineville · WV, USA
Witnesses near Mullens and Pineville, West Virginia believed USAF jets fired at or destroyed oval-shaped objects in the sky, in an incident lasting about three minutes in the late 1950s.
Upper Glade · WV, USA
A witness in rural Upper Glade, West Virginia reported a close-up sighting of an egg-shaped object for about five minutes around 1956.
Weirton · WV, USA
My Uncle Sam was driving to work very early one winter morning. He lived down the street from my house. As he approached my home in h
Flatwoods · WV, USA
I saw the craft go across the horizon. It appeared to be on fire, I first thought it was a plane going down. It landed near a farm.
Mount Hope · WV, USA
One of first sightings in U.S. -- 1950s
Oak Ridge (drive) · WV, USA
A witness near Charleston, West Virginia reported a log-shaped object whooshing past, observed for about 40 seconds in May 1949.
Jim Ridge · WV, USA
Wreckage was reportedly found on a dairy farm near Jim Ridge, West Virginia in 1948, in a rural case that was never officially resolved.
Wilderness (near western MD) · WV, USA
US fighter planes shoot down pre Roswell UFO then military scour crash site & bury UFO remains at wilderness site
Wilderness · WV, USA
A witness in Wilderness, West Virginia reported related sightings of a disk-shaped object over a three-week period in 1944.
Chapmanville · WV, USA
There were three stationary lights, they very quickly disappeared after catching a glimpse of it.
Shepherdstown · WV, USA
I have still photos of the entire time frame ((anonymous report))
Poca · WV, USA
I've reported this 3 times ,but it's never posted,there's so many UFOs around John Amos n so many witnesses I don't know how the news s
New Martinsville · WV, USA
At 5:30pm EST, I was pulling from a side street onto Rt#2 north when i saw what at first appeared to be a star. I stopped my car after