UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1997

Garden Grove, CA, USA

Around 6:30 PM I was walking through a Vons Pavilions parking lot when I looked up and saw 4 black objects near the ground. 3 of those

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-19
Where
Garden Grove, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4 mins.
Geo
33.774, -117.941 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-garden-grove-ca-1997-a1d19d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Garden Grove, CA shows up 55 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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