UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Newport News, VA, USA

Green-Ringed Saucer 14 feet away

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-24
Where
Newport News, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 minute, 30 seconds
Geo
36.980, -76.430 · exact
Slug
disk-over-newport-news-va-2008-89d275
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

  • Newport News, VA has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 100 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.