CaseRectangle1988
Long Beach, CA, USA
Erratically flying object seen at night on beach in Southern California
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-01
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-long-beach-ca-1988-900619
In context
- Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from California in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 3.2% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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