CaseDisk1996
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Unidentified Disc in plain sight, 1000 ft away, for 30 seconds
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-15
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newport-beach-ca-1996-5c502e
In context
- This is one of 39 reports logged in Newport Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 136 California reports filed in 1996.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% 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.