UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2015

Chennai (India), India

Accidentally taken a series of photos of a bright yellow rectangular UFO zooming across the night sky while taking photos of the Moon

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-31
Where
Chennai (India), India
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
13.088, 80.278 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-chennai-india-2015-403e4b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 14 documented reports from Chennai (India), India in the UFOMYST archive.
  • India logged 35 sightings in 2015.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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