Newport Beach, CA, USA
Three fireball objects seen by witnesses fading in and out of view over the ocean. Location was off the coast from Newport Beach, CA.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-21
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newport-beach-ca-2016-482d17
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…
In context
- Newport Beach, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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