UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Fresno, CA, USA

Approx. 9:30 I was walking at Woodward Pk in Fresno, in the SE. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-07-27
Where
Fresno, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
36.748, -119.772 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-fresno-ca-2016-1f1b5a
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…

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In context

  • One of 171 documented reports from Fresno, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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