UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2020

Palm Desert, CA, USA

I was visiting family in california. arrived late on 11/24th. I was awakend to let my dog outside at 5am to potty. I was looking up at

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-25
Where
Palm Desert, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
33.723, -116.377 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-palm-desert-ca-2020-dcdcd2
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

  • This is one of 53 reports logged in Palm Desert, CA.
  • This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.8% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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