CaseRectangle2014

Temecula, CA, USA

Blue rectangular, semi-transparent object (~6' x ~12') rose up out of a small grove of fruit trees and disappeared with a very bright w

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-31
Where
Temecula, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
33.494, -117.148 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-temecula-ca-2014-5c362f
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

  • Temecula, CA has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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