UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2017

Poway, CA, USA

Absolutely massive (two aircraft carriers back to back) black, unlit, high altitude object speeding through the night sky.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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 (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-23
Where
Poway, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
32.963, -117.036 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-poway-ca-2017-4d4929
Wave

Part of a wave

  • 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 25 documented reports from Poway, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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