As reported

Cylinder over Summersville, WV

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The report, as filed

Large white cylinder object heading northwest direction

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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August 29, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT

Summersville, WV

Looked out the front door at around 11pm and saw a very bright light in the sky that at first i thought was a star. It was changing colors and when I saw a plane fly by it I noticed it started to move and then stopped again. After watching for several minutes I noticed several blinking lights in the sky above a mountain in the distance that appeared to blink at random intervals, almost like they were communicating. They would blink blue and red. I noticed a large amount of planes in the sky, at one point I counted four planes in the sky at one time. I went back inside for around fifteen minutes and came back but the bright light was nowhere to be found. The blinking lights and planes are still in the sky at this time.

July 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN

Summersville, WV

My wife and I were at Wal-Mart, on 4th of July. Just before the fireworks we saw an object float in from the south. It emitted an orange-red color. There were many witnesses. The object made no sound. It seems it was observing the crowd and not interested in the fireworks because it flew west and disappeared. The fireworks started and we did not see it after that.

June 23, 2014 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER

Summersville, WV

Saw a silver cylinder flying object with no wings, flying west over town of Summersville, WV. No sound and traveling faster than an airliner. Did not glow. Must have been about 10-20 thousand feet. It flew in a straight line with no exhaust. But I saw it fly into a light cloud and I could see exhaust but when it exited it into the blue sky, there was no exhaust. Thought it was a gov. drone but did not see any wings. I saw the same silver flying type craft over Summersville Lake a few years ago but at a lot lower altitude. It also had no sound or wings. Don't know what this thing is but I would like to know. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I just submitted a report but, because of the use of military time, I reported the time incorrectly. I reported it as 8pm local but it was 10pm-11pm local (I guess 22:00-23:00). Please correct. ((END ADDENDUM))

November 10, 2012 · 2:15 PM · CYLINDER