UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2004

Effingham, IL, USA

it flew across the sky and was gone in one second

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-07
Where
Effingham, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 second
Geo
39.120, -88.543 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-effingham-il-2004-748cc5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Effingham, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 220 sightings in 2004.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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