CaseDisk2001
Newport News, VA, USA
Fast glowing disc through the early morning sky.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-16
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newport-news-va-2001-2b3037
In context
- Newport News, VA has 34 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 63 reports from Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.