UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Elma, WA, USA

Fast moving, bright shimmering rectangular object near Elma WA in daylight

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-10
Where
Elma, WA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
47.003, -123.409 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-elma-wa-2016-cd8529
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Elma, WA.
  • This case is one of 229 Washington reports filed in 2016.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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