UFOMYST
CaseFormation1973

Newport Beach, CA, USA

Flying V shaped lights, newport beach, ca.1973

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-30
Where
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.619, -117.929 · exact
Slug
formation-over-newport-beach-ca-1973-7b62b7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • Newport Beach, CA has 39 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 18 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 1.3% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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