UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Newport News, VA, USA

Was walking my dog around 32nd Street and Newport News seen a big circle appear in the sky for other little circles came out of the big

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-28
Where
Newport News, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.980, -76.430 · exact
Slug
circle-over-newport-news-va-2017-8b4957
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 104 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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