CaseCircle2002
Newport News, VA, USA
Single orb starts in the sky, then becomes encircled by other orbs, then spins away.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-01
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 00:00:15
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-newport-news-va-2002-d42f02
In context
- One of 34 documented reports from Newport News, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 65 sightings in 2002.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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