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
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
- 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
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.