Disk over Morgantown, WV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saucer-like object seen passing by downtown Morgantown
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2009-03-20 → 2009-04-06
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May 30, 2023 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
Morgantown, WV
Sitting on back deck in early evening. Watching planes overhead and tracking with Flight Tracker app. Noticed an object coming towards us. It seemed to be a low altitude, but I would be guessing - maybe around 2,000-3,000 feet. It was low enough and close enough to the ground that we could visibly see it spinning. It was a round, shiny silver orb that seemed to have small fins on it that would glisten in the sun. That was how we knew it was spinning - we could literally see it turning. It flew very smoothly, in a straight line, directly over our house from south-east to north-west and out of sight. No sound. No blinking lights. No exhaust or contrail. I took a video which I will try to upload. If you zoom in on the video, you can see the object get bright and dark as it spins. It was not a plane - I checked the flight tracker app. It was not the ISS, it came over (north to south) several hours later. I am familiar with rocket bodies, comets, balloons, etc as I track a lot of things in the sky. This was completely different and very much what I have heard described by other sightings of metallic orbs. It was unlike anything I have ever seen. My wife experienced the same thing I did and she is a huge skeptic of UAP/UFOs. If my video uploads, check out the second object that appears to come from the top of the screen and pass the main object at the :24 second mark - could be a bug, but we only caught it by going frame by frame. UGH - I can't upload the video - that's all I have. If you'd like to email me, I will gladly share it. It's certainly not a fantastic video, but you can see the object spinning by the sun/dark/sun pattern. "Honey, there's a UFO - grab my worst camera!" Ha ha!
March 1, 2023 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Morgantown, WV
I awoke randomly @ 3:30am to use the restroom across the hall. On the way back to the bedroom I noticed out my second story foyer window an orange light. I thought I might be seeing a reflection from brake lights on the window or perhaps an airplane or helicopter, but there were no cars or aircraft in sight, and it was dead quiet outside. I stepped forward to get a closer look and I observed a reddish/orange sphere that had a bit of texture to it, similar to TV static, that appeared to be moving slowly, while the sphere remained still. The object was roughly 150 feet off the ground above my neighbor's home, which is at a slightly lower elevation than my home. The area immediately surrounding the sphere was illuminated with the orange color, yet there were no clouds around it at that elevation to explain how this was possible. Nothing to reflect off of, in other words. I watched for another ten seconds or so and then the object started to slowly travel to the Northwest and then rapidly accelerate towards the mountains off in the distance, which are about 4 miles away. I have a clear view of the mountains from this window. The object covered this distance in a matter of only two to three seconds, getting smaller and smaller, eventually disappearing over the mountains. I was not outside to confirm of course but did not hear a sound at all while it moved away from me. The entire encounter lasted about 30 seconds. I have no explanation for what I witnessed.
November 7, 2022 · 2:45 AM · DISK
Morgantown, WV
I left morgantown ok Oct 1st to go to Vacaville Ca. My mom lives at ((address eleted)) drive to get away from the voices I was hearing. Upon arrival everything got much worse. Since returning on oct 13th the problem is still occuring. I was experiencing happening on the flight as well. I flew Frontier airlines out of Sacramento CA. I hear sounds that sound like a ship and see small green lights that come together and make hologram scary images. I am not sure if this is a gang stalking technique or I am actually having alien activity. The voices have told me I am being gangstalked by EL. I am also having issues with high EMF waves. I also have a big problem on my left calf and other areas that seem like a flea problem. There are small portholes in my Cieling that they have said they are dropping them on me and then feeding off of me.
August 7, 2022 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Morgantown, WV
Starting off as a regular night around 10:30pm on the phone with my mother. I notice a red/white firery star outside my window. When I first noticed it seemed like it was sitting still but had a crazy glowing field around it. It seemed like it was illuminating a small portion of the sky around it. As I notice this I focus on it, wondering what star or planet it was. This is when it started shooting off and appearing in different spots almost at the same exact moment. It started bobbing up and down and left and right rapidly almost as if it was aware I was watching it. As I’m still on the phone I start to move my head so my field of vision does not show the object as if I was testing it to see if it would come into my field of vision and it continued to move straight into my field of view everytime I moved my head. This is what confirmed it being some type of craft. This is when I told my mother I was watching a ufo. I then switch from phone call to FaceTime to show her the bobbing firery craft. At this point after 5 mins of watching it go back and forth, left and right, my mother was then convinced as well. It didn’t take long for me to call in everyone at the house to look at it in my bedroom. When I did this I got this immediate thought in my head that the craft didn’t want everyone’s attention since a couple of the people who came to look did not believe in such phenomena. As I got this thought I watched it go from flashing/blinking to a steady white/red fire color and instead of dancing around it stayed put and increasingly got less bright. At this point I was convinced the craft was in contact with me and was telling me that it did not approve of the other witnesses being present. So at that point I kicked everyone out of the room and as soon as I closed my door, the craft goes back to blinking rapidly and bouncing back and forth. After it did this I had a feeling that I was losing this connection I was having with it. I got an immediate feeling that I needed to head upstairs and onto our balcony to see it better. As I walk out onto the balcony the dimming craft then again begins to increase its brightness and dance once again. As I would watch the craft go back and forth I would get this intense deep sensation throughout my entire body that made me feel like I was connected with it even though it seemed like it was miles and miles away. It was almost like I was completely locked on it having zero thoughts other than feeling a sense of peace and comfort. As I stared at the dancing object for almost 30 minutes I fell into a trance like state where I could only feel a deep sense of relaxation. So much to the point I had this feeling that whoever was controlling the craft was comforting me as I watched. It literally felt at a certain point in the trance that I was being physically held, almost like someone was hugging me from behind. After blinking a couple times and fixing my focus the trance like feeling stopped and I had an immediate feeling that told me to wait until it disappears since this experience could be once in a lifetime. As soon as that thought ended the craft did a final beautiful performance of shooting all the way across the sky left and right and instantly vanished. The movements before it vanished was the most impressive thing I have ever seen in my life. Traveling instantly and more farther than it did the whole night it was a true finale performance that has changed my life forever.
July 23, 2022 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Morgantown, WV
It looked like a moving star because it was so far away. It didn’t blink like a satellite and was way too high up to be a plane, and, I know what plane lights look like because I see them flying to the local airport sometimes. It wasn’t that. I saw it in the sky southwest of my location, but it moved to dead center of the sky where I was at, so a pretty significant distance. I also noticed it sometimes it would fly around to reposition itself, as well as sometimes moving significantly up and significantly down. It was still there when I went inside. This is the second sighting I’ve had in this county in 3 years, but the ships looked different. The other was golden with a subcraft that detached to, from how it looked, study the moon before rejoinging and flying away.
February 21, 2022 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Morgantown, WV
Monday, 2/21/22 at 7:00pm. My wife & I were outside on the patio enjoying warm temps & had a fire in the fireplace. The wife noticed a orange/yellow flickering round object pop up from the south west horizon. Immediately there was a second one. While watching these two, maybe 30 seconds, I noticed a 3rd one. They were in the same trajectory, an angled line. Made no noise, dead quiet silent. Sparse clouds, but able to see many starts & planes, not alot of ambient light behind our home. We watched all three disappear into a cloud bank, approximately the same spot, all following the identical trajectory. We spend hours on our patio in the summer time, late into the night by the fire place. We make a habit to unplug when were out there and typically do not take cell phones-so no pictures. We see stars, planets, satellites, aircraft at various altitudes, but never seen anything like this before.