Newport Beach, CA, USA
one disk with lights underneath it observed by myself for 2 minutes in the sky stationary as well as moving across sky.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-02
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newport-beach-ca-2006-3e32f7
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
Newport Beach, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2006.
In context
- One of 39 documented reports from Newport Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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