UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Newport Beach, CA, USA

On Sat Feb 22 at 11pm I was on my deck smoking a cigarette when I saw 3 round objects with yellow lights coming up from the south.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-02-22
Where
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.619, -117.929 · exact
Slug
circle-over-newport-beach-ca-2014-168f20
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

  • Newport Beach, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
  • 869 reports came from California in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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