CaseRectangle1977

Huntington Beach, CA, USA

This was a rectangular object with a red and green pulsing lights there were two officers which apparently also saw this.

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 (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-15
Where
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 min.
Geo
33.660, -117.999 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-huntington-beach-ca-1977-a13d45
Wave

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In context

  • Huntington Beach, CA shows up 97 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from California in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 2.3% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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