San Leandro, CA, USA
Large retangler object flamed out after 3 seconds traveling north east over northern california 3:32 AM
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-18
- Where
- San Leandro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 37.725, -122.156 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-san-leandro-ca-2009-74896c
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…
In context
- This is one of 24 reports logged in San Leandro, CA.
- This case is one of 647 California reports filed in 2009.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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