CaseDiamond1999
Newport Beach, CA, USA
A large shinning diamond flying slowly or hovering.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-06
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-newport-beach-ca-1999-484716
In context
- Newport Beach, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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.