UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Newport Beach, CA, USA

I saw this flying object around 10:30 at night I was at Newport Beach to see the bioluminescence it was there for 6 hours I left around

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: 21600s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-22
Where
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
6 hours
Geo
33.619, -117.929 · exact
Slug
circle-over-newport-beach-ca-2020-f0a32a
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

  • This is one of 39 reports logged in Newport Beach, CA.
  • This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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