Bakersfield, CA, USA
dropped in from space and changed direction leaving disappearing directional trials ((NUFORC Note: Flying insect. PD))
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-25
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2.5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-bakersfield-ca-2022-8c6989
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…
In context
- Bakersfield, CA has 140 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 113 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 1.8% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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