CaseRectangle2002
Pacific Palasades, CA, USA
The object flosted across the sky, barely lit from the light of the moon. Then it changed directions.. Was it a bird? Was it a plane?
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.
- Duration parsed: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-02-24
- Where
- Pacific Palasades, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- rectangle-over-pacific-palasades-ca-2002-088129
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Pacific Palasades, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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