Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, USA
Reddish lights spotted in the shipping lanes off the Monterey Bay Coastline
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-16
- Where
- Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Two minutes
- Geo
- 36.555, -121.923 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-carmel-by-the-sea-ca-2019-ee4cd2
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA.
- This case is one of 510 California reports filed in 2019.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.