CaseOther2008

Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA

Odd panel of four orange lights spotted above Atlantic Ocean before quickly fading out.

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-03
Where
Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
7-10 seconds
Geo
38.721, -75.076 · exact
Slug
other-over-rehoboth-beach-de-2008-e825e4
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

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Rehoboth Beach, DE.
  • This case is one of 12 Delaware reports filed in 2008.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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