San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Two red lights and two yellow light in a rectangle shape with and white strobe. This object was about 800 feet high.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-02
- Where
- San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.502, -117.663 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-san-juan-capistrano-ca-2014-30f5dd
Part of a wave
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
- One of 13 documented reports from San Juan Capistrano, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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