As reported

Light over Martinsburg, WV

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Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #146848). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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July 21, 2020 · 4:36 AM · OVAL

Martinsburg, WV

On the morning of Tuesday, July 21, 2020 while reviewing our motion alerts from overnight, at timestamp 4:36 AM, I noticed six lights that were flying (NE) in sync from the bottom right of the video. One came close to a bird feeder pole and slightly banked, then re-positioned as they continued flying. I have no clue what this and other recorded events like it were that followed for a few days after (July 21, 22, and 26). Impressed though that it seemed to be able to react to an object in its path (the bird feeder pole) and adjust accordingly. This is an account that I witnessed through video footage within 2 hours of its occurrence. Night vision (non-color) on the camera sensed the movement but did not trigger the floodlight as larger objects would. Therefore, I do not know if the objects had color. While flying away (at a distance of 16 feet from security camera to bird feeder pole) they appear to be rounded yet elongated and about 3 feet while in sync. Weather was clear, 76˚F, elevation appx. 410ft Video link of security camera footage UnidentiFied O #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOqS1btkDCw Side note…Not knowing if this is coincidental or not, also discovered that morning was a dead rabbit (to the left of the said bird feeder pole in this video and report) whose body was flat with clear-ish slime on it, however the head appeared to be untouched and fully shaped with no damage, eyes wide open and ears straight up. No blood present and there appeared to be no bones. It also completely decomposed unusually fast and not able to tell anything had been there, within three days.

November 29, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE

Martinsburg, WV

This incident occurred the morning of November 29, 2018, at approximately 12:10 a.m. and its duration lasted until approximately 12:23 a.m.. I walked to the back door to lock up and noticed an extremely bright object low to the horizon in the Eastern sky. I could determine this due to my position on my back deck which is 10 feet from the ground facing due East. I’m 6 feet 3 inches in height so my view was approximately sixteen feet from the ground. I looked around the sky to compare stars and the Moon. There was a cluster of stars to the upper right of the object but much dimmer and higher in altitude. I looked to the left and saw another grouping of stars of the same dimness and approximate altitude as the others. The Moon was to my immediate left. Larger and brighter than the object I was viewing but it was much closer in appearance and lower to the horizon than the bright object. To give a perspective as to the bright object I was viewing’s distance from the Moon, I can only estimate as follows: The Moon (appearing 7 to 10 times larger than the object in question due to it’s perspective from where I was standing) would be (in distance) approximately 10 moons side by side. The object I was viewing appeared larger than a star, was much sharper in appearance and displayed characteristics unlike a star. I went into the living room and retrieved my cell phone. I returned to the deck and took several pictures. I didn’t know whether I was operating the camera correctly and feared I wouldn’t get any images of worth. Because of this fear I went into the living room to review the pictures to see if any of them came out. While in the process of doing so my wife walked through the room towards the kitchen. I said to her that I captured a photo of something odd in the sky and if she’d mind going to the deck to see if it was still there. She did so, paused and said for me to come outside with her. She pointed out the object I’d seen and said, “Is that what you saw?” I said yes but the object was now higher and to the upper right in the eastern sky. She said, “ Do you see that smaller bright light moving around it?” I looked where she pointed and I did see it. The original object (in it’s new higher position) had a quick moving smaller light moving erratically to it’s right. The smaller light wasn’t as bright as the larger object but I could see it moving in various quick directions around the object. It would rapidly move toward the larger object then away from it. After approximately 30 seconds or more the smaller light was no longer visible but the larger object was. Note: I’d left the phone in the living room where I was reviewing the photos when my wife called me to the door. I failed to take the phone with me when she called me outside. As a result, I was unable to get pictures of what we were now both seeing. Once I zoomed in on the object, I captured in the pictures it no longer appeared to be a very bright light. In the enlarged photo the object appears egg shaped then circular, slightly larger at the bottom than the top having a dark blue marking near the top and toward the bottom. It then began moving rapidly in a westerly direction then back to an easterly direction. The lighter blue body is surrounded in a almost closed circle that’s darker blue and to our eyes had a hue or haze surrounding the outer skin. We have spoken via telephone with the witness on several occasions, and exchanged several e-mails with him, as well. Based on that exchange of information, we suspect that the source of the report is a highly skilled, and highly reliable, witness. PD

October 24, 2018 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE

Martinsburg, WV

I was driving into work this morning and looking at the beautiful clear full moon when a large white sphere appeared right next to the moon. It was huge--way too big to be a star or an plane. I watched for about a minute and decided to stop and take a picture. When I got out to take the picture, it totally just disappeared.

August 10, 2017 · 5:45 AM · UNKNOWN