UFOMYST
CaseFormation2016

Newport Beach, CA, USA

Sitting on Balboa Island looking in the direction of the pavilion which is NW two objects.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-15
Where
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
33.619, -117.929 · exact
Slug
formation-over-newport-beach-ca-2016-9020b0
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

  • This is one of 39 reports logged in Newport Beach, CA.
  • This case is one of 579 California reports filed in 2016.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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