Circle over Newport Beach, CA
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The report, as filed
strange bright object observed at noon over southern california
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2006-01-02 → 2006-01-19
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June 25, 2023 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Newport Beach, CA
Very visible at first, then went higher and higher until it disappeared. It stayed in a formation of 8 bubble-like objects with a short "tail". It was very clear at first (on the beach between 18th and 19th street). When I first saw it it appeared over the ocean and was very clear. It moved higher and higher and then disappeared. I watched it for about 10 minutes or so. I kept looking around to see if anyone else noticed it because it was really clear at first. But it seemed like people were just enjoying the beach and playing ball, etc. Unfortunately, it was a day that I didn't have my phone with me. I wanted to relax and "unplug" so I left my phone at home.
August 6, 2021 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Newport Beach, CA
On the above date and time my wife and I were casually backyard stargazing, looking at Venus, which was getting low in the sky. From our location, we can observe numerous aircraft constantly come and go in various approach patterns to both John Wayne airport and Long beach airport, and we are quite accustomed to seeing these. All aircraft display navigation strobes and can be tracked on OpenADSB, which I use for fun. To the left of Venus we noticed an unidentified light in the sky approximately 5º above the horizon. Neither of us had noticed the light just a few minutes earlier, and there was no additional detail that would suggest a distance from us. The light was larger than any of the stars in the sky and indeed bigger than Venus itself. It therefore appeared to have mass, and it was illuminated, alternating between red and green solid light - not strobes - with a period of approximately 1 second or less. The light was located in the direction of 240º from Corona Del Mar, CA. As we observed it, the light ascended vertically approximately three times the distance from the ocean from where we initially noticed it. The ascension took approximately 1 to 1.5 seconds and was clearly not aeronautical in nature, as airplanes do not move vertically in such a near-instantaneous manner. I called to my 15 year-old son to join us, which he did, and he began observing about 5 seconds after the initial, vertical move. Approximately 5 seconds later, while all three of us watched, the light descended again to its original location, and then, after a second or two, plunged out of site, presumably into the ocean. END OF REPORT
April 22, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Newport Beach, CA
Then Sunday and Monday it was around Torrance beach and hermosa beach. Then last night when I check the camera At Surfline app. Today at Wednesday April 29 202012:08 AM It was now at Venice beach where the bioluminescent is. When I saw it it was flying weird up and down slow and fast most of the time it was still just floating around. There was a electric zingling kinda of sound never heard it before. It was a very bright yellow light.
December 29, 2019 · 3:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Newport Beach, CA
Two triangle shaped crafts flying very close together. They made a large banked turn and they were flying unison.
December 1, 2019 · 5:20 PM · LIGHT
Newport Beach, CA
Straight line of light in sky
December 30, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Newport Beach, CA
We were at Balboa Pier, in Newport Beach, California, at approximately 8:15pm pacific time on 12-30-16. We were looking at the horizon to the west into the ocean, for the moon, (which there wasn't) and noticed a steak in the clouds. Then out of the clouds suddenly a bright round light appeared. We were saying to one another it was an airplane, but it just stayed in one location for about 3 minutes and then withdrew from its origin in seconds. With no residual light to be seen or any new light originating. We all felt like it was peculiar? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD