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
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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
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.