UFOMYST
CaseChanging2020

Newport News, VA, USA

A bright moonlit night with no stars to see, except one that was in our atmosphere, moving slowly, and I knew it was special.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-02
Where
Newport News, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
36.980, -76.430 · exact
Slug
changing-over-newport-news-va-2020-89c0bf
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

  • One of 34 documented reports from Newport News, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 106 sightings in 2020.
  • Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

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.