CaseRectangle2022

San Diego, CA, USA

A stirng of brilliant white lights on a craft

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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 (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-02-06
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
15 plus minutes
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-san-diego-ca-2022-87b6f3
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

  • San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
  • 113 reports came from California in 2022.
  • In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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