UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Oakdale, CA, USA

Like a airplane on fire then it kept going and when it passed out head it had like 6 lights. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-07-27
Where
Oakdale, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
37.767, -120.847 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-oakdale-ca-2016-9cd6e8
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • One of 12 documented reports from Oakdale, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

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