Disk over Huntington, WV
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I and my girlfriend watched a silvery luminous football shaped object.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-02-25 → 2008-03-13
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February 12, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Huntington, WV
Moving East to West. Three-hundred feet long, three-thousand feet high, speed about five-hundred mph. Craft transparent with no outline — background stars shown between all the lights. Could have been a "light show" only, with lights held in fixed relationship to one another by unknown means, only appearing to be attached to a rigid object. Made no sound. Just before it/they would have disappeared behind the roof overhang of my house, the lights melted away, as though entering heavy cloud cover. But there were no clouds; it was a starry night! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
November 8, 2020 · 2:00 PM · CHANGING
Huntington, WV
On Thursday 11/8/2020 at approximately 2 pm I was in the parking lot of a Speedway gas station in Huntington West Virginia, delivering fuel to the location. I was looking up to see if I could see any airplanes and noticed two white things that appeared to float in the air. At first I thought they were pieces of paper or something floating the way paper ash floats in the air from a fire. But, there was no fire. These two objects were shiny. I was wearing dark polarized sun glasses and could not see these objects at all when I took my sun glasses off. They seemed to spin or rotate because they went from being round looking to a straight line perpendicular to the ground and then back round again. I could not tell how big they were because there was nothing to reference them to. At first they seemed to float, then one of them shot straight south really fast. The other one stopped and stayed motionless. The one that had zipped away stopped and zipped right back over to the one that stopped. A normal airplane went by behind them and it was really slow compared to how fast they scooted across the sky. I did not hear any noise or sound from the objects. I watched them for another 30 seconds or so and they just went away. The whole thing lasted maybe a minute and a half to two minutes. I have no idea what these things were but they were not anything I've ever seen or what I'd consider “normal” to see in the sky.
September 29, 2019 · 3:34 PM · SPHERE
Huntington, WV
While boating on the Ohio river, I noticed what I will call an atmospheric anomaly. My adult kids and grandkids were all present. A thin, high altitude cloud shimmering with the violet wavelengths, pinks, purple and blues. I pointed it out to everyone and passed my sunglasses around to kids. The sunglasses made the colors much more visible and I most likely would not have even noticed it without them. It was quite beautiful and something that I had never seen. My kids described it as being "really cool". I wanted to photograph it, but being so close to the sun I doubted I would be able to capture all the colors. I decided to hold my sunglasses in front of the camera lens on my iPhone. I snapped two pics, perhaps 15 to 30 seconds apart. A while later I decided to look at the pics and that's when I noticed the brighter circular object within the cloud. I know I must have looked at that cloud for 2 or 3 minutes as we floated down the river. I can say with all certainty that the object was not visible to the naked or sunglassed eye. Today I applied a couple different filters that come with the phone. If u look closely to the left of the orb, it seams like there is a shockwave. In the second pic the object has dropped down a good bit and there doesn't seam to be much going on. I figured the cloud to just be filled with ice particles and catching the suns rays just right. The orb thing does however have me dumbfounded and why couldn't I see it? Makes me wonder how much I don't see. I did take a couple more pics the next day, trying to replicate conditions as much as possible. I used the same sunglasses to determine if there might possibly be a flaw in the glass that would account for the anomaly but I was able to pretty much rule that out. Any ideas?
August 3, 2019 · 9:23 PM · OVAL
Huntington, WV
The object appeared Saturday night, August 3, 2019, at approximately 9:23PM (ET). I was sitting with my wife on my patio facing NW, close proximity to the Ohio River, when I saw a large bright circle heading south. My location is in a rural area surrounded by rolling hills and forest. I immediately pulled out my smart phone and started recording. I have the entire event on video with audio. Within only a few seconds the object was almost directly overhead, moving fast and it appeared to be glowing orange. The speed of the object appeared to be similar to a jetliner. Over the next 30-40 seconds, the object continued south and flickered briefly, then disappeared entirely. In this area, we see a lot of falling stars, satellites, and aircraft. This was unlike anything we've ever seen. More unusual was the object appeared to be guided rather than falling.
October 1, 2018 · 11:31 AM · LIGHT
Huntington, WV
Me and my girlfriend were driving down 3rd avenue, heading home from work and all of sudden we see a small light in the sky and suddenly we realize it happens to be flying across the sky really low, flashing multiple colors but mostly green, we only got to see it for 2 seconds so this all happens really fast but other people on Facebook seen it as well
September 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Huntington, WV
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD