CaseRectangle1976
Sacramento, CA, USA
fire emitting rectangle shaped object traveling at high velocity, low attitude roocket blasting noise then vanished silent.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-08-08
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-sacramento-ca-1976-d58803
In context
- One of 304 documented reports from Sacramento, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 36 sightings in 1976.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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