UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Newport News, VA, USA

Bright orange spherical object moving very quickly from SW to NE in steady, soundless flight.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-02
Where
Newport News, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 min 30 sec.
Geo
36.980, -76.430 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-newport-news-va-2008-070f13
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

  • One of 34 documented reports from Newport News, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2008.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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