Chevron over Athens, WV
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The report, as filed
It swooped down from the fog and did a loop and swooped back up into clouds/fog, it had no lights only a dark circle under its belly, the reason why I got a glimpse of it is because when it swooped down the glow of the city lights reflected off its belly, the size of this thing was about the size of a small aircraft and it was about 1200ft in the air and about 4mi away from my location over the hills, like I said I only saw what it did very briefly and never saw it again. It might have been a military test drone, I've heard that the WV air force base in Charleston sometimes test aircraft over the area.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133247). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-03-18 → 2017-04-04