UFOMYST
CaseFlash2012

Newport Beach, CA, USA

3 UFO's over Orange County, CA

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-19
Where
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 min
Geo
33.619, -117.929 · exact
Slug
flash-over-newport-beach-ca-2012-34b904
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

  • One of 39 documented reports from Newport Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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