UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2008

Fairfield, CA, USA

me and my friend were in his garage and my friend said "HOLY CRAP" i think im looking a UFO then i look and it has 4 white lights and 1

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-16
Where
Fairfield, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
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Geo
38.249, -122.040 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-fairfield-ca-2008-da48ad
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 55 documented reports from Fairfield, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

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