CaseRectangle2014
Chennai (India), India
((HOAX??)) It was terrific.
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2014-05-28
- Where
- Chennai (India), India
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 13.088, 80.278 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-chennai-india-2014-aa81aa
Wave
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
- Chennai (India), India has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 43 reports from India.
- The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.