CaseLight2002
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Just happened to be in the backyard looking up and saw a bright pinpoint of light. Very high up, probably above the atmosphere. It's
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-15
- Where
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.619, -117.929 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newport-beach-ca-2002-1d70e5
In context
- Newport Beach, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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