UFOMYST
CaseChanging2014

Newport News, VA, USA

I fly drones for hobby and even the top end private drones dont look or act like this or capable of such an odd flight.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-07-31
Where
Newport News, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.980, -76.430 · exact
Slug
changing-over-newport-news-va-2014-7ea43f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Newport News, VA has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 184 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.