UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1978

Lake Don Pedro, CA, USA

From a sideview looked like very large dark rectangles moving above the water very quickly,,no sound.

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-15
Where
Lake Don Pedro, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
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Slug
rectangle-over-lake-don-pedro-ca-1978-edbd3a
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Lake Don Pedro, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Rectangle craft made up 2.3% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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