Light over Beckley, WV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was inside with my mother and my father was outside on the porch talking to one of our neighbors. My father called to us "come and look at this" my mother and I went out side. He pointed to the sky and just above the tree line ther were two orange lights moving east to west. The lights were sort of far apart and stayed near the tree line while moving about the speed of a plane. They were gone pretty quickly
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135795). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-08-16 → 2017-09-02
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