Newport Beach, CA, USA
one disk with lights underneath it observed by myself another adult and 3 kids for a few minutes in the sky stationary as well as movin
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-08
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- Minutes
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newport-beach-ca-2006-ef4254
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Newport Beach, CA in December 2006 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Newport Beach, CA has 39 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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