West Virginia Ranks #1 in October 2014 for UFO Sightings
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The skies over West Virginia were seemingly flooded with aerial phenomenon in October. It seemed liked every other day I was reading in the headlines about yet another sighting and oddly enough, peoples stories were corroborating with each others.
MUFON put West Virginia at a rating of #1 in the nation last month. That's the highest rating MUFON can give a state on a per-monthly basis. West Virginia had 12 reported sightings in just that one month alone. Nine of them actually were current, leaving three to have happened anywhere from a couple months ago to last year at this time. The calcuations on those nine reports by MUFON is 4.85 sightings per million population. For reasons unclear, Marmet, W.V. and Morgantown, W.V. sorta became hotspots. The majority of the reports were of a triangular craft, outlined in white lights. The center of the craft appeared to be emitting a red light from the center and flash time to time.
But the triangular crafts weren't the only thing being seen in the sky. One of the credible witnesses caught a cigar-shaped craft with what appeared to be two "bat-like" wings with one located at the front and one in the rear. The second type of object was commonly sighted as a "white orb" that appeared to dance around the sky erradically coming to a stop from time to time. The third was actually of three objects in a formation. A single circular shaped object was at the front on its own wth no lights. The two objects that followed were diamond shaped and they had blinking lights on them.
The more the sightings were being posted, the more my investigative nature started to kick in. So by the weekend of October 23rd, I was convinced that maybe I should try my luck and take the two hour drive south to see if I could get a glimpse of what people were catching in the skies. I finally decided to get my stuff together and take off. The weather was good and the skies were supposed to be clear.
When I got across the W.V. state line I started looking for a good spot to pull over and get a good panoramic view of the sky. I sat there for a few hours and I did manage to see your occasional satellite, I.S.S., and random meteors but no UFO sightings. So I decided to ride down the road a bit to see if I could find any locals to talk to. Eventually, I got lucky at this little rest stop where I ended up getting 14 people to talk to me. After asking them all a few questions, careful not to press my luck, because I did have plans of coming back believe it or not! I found that 90 percent of them were fully aware of the recent sightings going on throughout most of the state. Of that 90 percent, the majority of them did believe in the UFO phenomenon and the chance of life outside of planet Earth. Although, the entire 90 percent except for one person, stated that even if they did see a UFO or related event they would not report it. And why?, the people were afraid of ridicule from the rest of the locals. This way of viewing things was really popular from the 50's clear on up until the 80's. Luckily now studies show that people are actually more open-minded now thankfully! The remaining 10 percent did not hear anything of the recent sightings and also were not popular with the idea of reporting it and being ridiculed.
