CaseRectangle1981
Petaluma, CA, USA
Around the outside edge of the dark red grid, there was a shimmering orange aura
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-04-28
- Where
- Petaluma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Approx two minutes or les
- Geo
- 38.232, -122.637 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-petaluma-ca-1981-a0171a
In context
- Petaluma, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
- 1981 brought 35 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 3.2% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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