CaseRectangle1979
Castro Valley, CA, USA
saw boxkite shaped object with lights on corners, then driver saw tried to follow, to fast in blink of eye went 2 miles other direction
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-01
- Where
- Castro Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.694, -122.086 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-castro-valley-ca-1979-eca20e
In context
- Castro Valley, CA has 32 sightings on file here.
- 1979 brought 42 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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