UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2006

Centralia, IL, USA

large rectangular dim lighted object low flying visable for 10 to 15 secs on 1/25/06 9:30 PM

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-01-25
Where
Centralia, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 to 15 secs.
Geo
38.525, -89.133 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-centralia-il-2006-58d47d
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…

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Centralia, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 144 sightings in 2006.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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