Light over Spruce Knob, WV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Spruce Knob Lake WV, August 12, 2017 We were watching a meteor shower and witnessed a UFO. It was a square light, very very bright, and it appeared to open and close like a window or door. It moved across the sky slowly, somewhere between a very high passenger jet and a life flight helicopter. No noise was observed. It was brighter than anything else in the night sky. Weather was 50% clouds, and the meteor shower was hard to watch. This light was bright enough to see through wispy clouds. It moved across the sky and it closed, like a window or door. It would then reappear and move in a totally different direction, and it repeated this about a half dozen times. We had family members and friends in Nineveh Pa and Fairmont WV who also witnessed this light while observing the meteor shower.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165056). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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