CaseRectangle2020

Palmdale, CA, USA

Rectangular wing, silent no lights, fast. 9 pm

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-14
Where
Palmdale, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
34.579, -118.116 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-palmdale-ca-2020-dc4f51
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…

In context

  • Palmdale, CA shows up 56 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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