Newport News/Hampton, VA, USA
Triangular shaped craft with lights on each point hovering in Newport News near Chestnut Avenue and Aberdeen Roadthen shot up and disap
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-21
- Where
- Newport News/Hampton, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-newport-news-hampton-va-2015-5c4dec
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Newport News/Hampton, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 151 sightings in 2015.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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