CaseRectangle2010

Sacramento, CA, USA

Translucent shimmering white soft edges rectangle wide as a the side of an AMTRAC train car.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-31
Where
Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
38.582, -121.494 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-sacramento-ca-2010-ef496f
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…

In context

  • This is one of 304 reports logged in Sacramento, CA.
  • This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.