Newport Beach, CA, USA
6 Lights hover above Ocean, then one by one, each descends & disappears
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-17
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-newport-beach-ca-2007-5bc1f8
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
- One of 39 documented reports from Newport Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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