Orland, CA, USA
My husband and I were doing some rock hounding at Burris Creek and I had a strong urge to take some photos of the sun. I took about 25
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-11-16
- Where
- Orland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Photo
- Geo
- 39.747, -122.196 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-orland-ca-2019-a1b55a
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 20 documented reports from Orland, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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