CaseRectangle2009

Burbank, CA, USA

Black rectangle shaped object hovering above Burbank: I was driving down Stagecoach St. in Bell Canyon when i saw this object.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-11
Where
Burbank, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
34.181, -118.309 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-burbank-ca-2009-e29c38
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Burbank, CA shows up 100 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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