CaseDisk1980
Newport News, VA, USA
I could see directly into the craft because lights were ON inside.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-12-01
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newport-news-va-1980-e2d1e7
In context
- Newport News, VA shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Virginia in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 14.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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