CaseFormation1973
Newport Beach, CA, USA
A report from Newport Beach, CA in June 1973 described a V-shaped formation of lights seen moving across the night sky, lasting 10 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (139 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
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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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