UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2012

Cathedral City, CA, USA

We saw bright lights in the night sky that shined right at us and our quick exit felt like it saved us. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-25
Where
Cathedral City, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.780, -116.465 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-cathedral-city-ca-2012-34297d
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • Cathedral City, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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