UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2017

Elkton, MD, USA

Large 40 ft rectangular object, large white beams of light in each corner shining down, quietly flying 100 ft up just above the trees.

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 (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-06
Where
Elkton, MD, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.607, -75.833 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-elkton-md-2017-e4044f
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

  • Elkton, MD shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 94 reports came from Maryland in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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