UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Newport News, VA, USA

Saw several red lights (appeared to be airplane lights), one white, moving silently and slowly in the dark night sky all grouped togeth

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-08-02
Where
Newport News, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
36.980, -76.430 · exact
Slug
light-over-newport-news-va-2013-653fd0
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…

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In context

  • One of 34 documented reports from Newport News, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 205 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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