CaseFlash2001
Newport News, VA, USA
Bright pinhead flash that grew in size to basketball size and changed colors from white to gaseous green.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-07
- Where
- Newport News, VA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 36.980, -76.430 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-newport-news-va-2001-08d5b4
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Newport News, VA.
- This case is one of 63 Virginia reports filed in 2001.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.