CaseRectangle2019

Allentown, PA, USA

Black rectangular craft with sodium colored lights on underside, traveling at a slow rate in a straight line, about 1500 feet AGL.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-15
Where
Allentown, PA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.608, -75.490 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-allentown-pa-2019-ebe424
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

  • One of 67 documented reports from Allentown, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 236 sightings in 2019.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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