CaseCigar1999
Newport News, VA, USA
I was on lunch break on second shift at Newport news shipyard, we were sitting on the river's edge facing south west. I looked over my
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-20
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-newport-news-va-1999-dfbdb5
In context
- One of 34 documented reports from Newport News, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 38 sightings in 1999.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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