UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2017

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Absolutely huge, gray, slanted rectangle with a long point coming out of one end. No lights, just gray, slow and blimp sized.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-02
Where
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
34.019, -118.491 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-santa-monica-ca-2017-f93aa8
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Santa Monica, CA shows up 61 times across the archive.
  • 594 reports came from California in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

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.