Placentia, CA, USA
Multicolored craft over golf course.
Report quality: Moderate52/100
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
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-10
- Where
- Placentia, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2' 53"
- Geo
- 33.872, -117.870 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-placentia-ca-2014-ed873f
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Placentia, CA in January 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Placentia, CA has 15 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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