CaseFlash1994
Newport Beach (Near), CA, USA
saw what I first thought was a comet or some other object. It looked like a falling star....it was very high up. I watched the object
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1994-05-05
- Where
- Newport Beach (Near), CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- five seconds
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-newport-beach-near-ca-1994-e66708
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Newport Beach (Near), CA.
- This case is one of 72 California reports filed in 1994.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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