Newport News, VA, USA
Small seemingly round object with red lights that streaked from the north horizon to the south horizon in a matter of 1 to 2 seconds
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-23
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newport-news-va-2019-8216e7
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Newport News, VA.
- This case is one of 194 Virginia reports filed in 2019.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.