Charleston, Wva being encounter — September 14, 1952

A very brief historical report places an unusual landing at Charleston, West Virginia, at about 9 p.m. on September 14, 1952. Several people were said to have seen a luminous white, disc-shaped object come down. Two men in bright suits allegedly emerged and climbed a nearby tree. Those few actions constitute the recoverable encounter sequence. The inherited Atlas entry cites Loren Gross's history of the 1952 reports and mentions local newspapers. A later humanoid catalogue repeats the white disc, bright clothing and tree-climbing, but explicitly supplies no further information. The accessible material does not name the witnesses, specify the exact site or tree, describe the men's faces, give the object's dimensions, or explain how the observation ended. The illustration therefore uses contextual details for those unspecified features. This report should remain separate from the better-known Flatwoods episode two days earlier, despite the shared West Virginia setting and nearby newspaper coverage. Neither the catalogue's trace classifications nor its occupant label establishes that a physical trace was examined or that the men were extraterrestrial. Until the original article or an investigation is located, the case is best presented as a sparse, attributed historical claim, preserving its unusual sequence without adding a conversation, confrontation or abduction.