Newport News, VA, USA
Ball of light with a spike in southwest sky that arcs westerly to the horizon.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-29
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-newport-news-va-2013-cf0739
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
- Newport News, VA has 34 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 205 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.