UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2018

Fort Payne, AL, USA

Unidentified Black and Red, Rectangular Flying Object

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-04
Where
Fort Payne, AL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
34.444, -85.720 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-fort-payne-al-2018-06f63a
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 13 reports logged in Fort Payne, AL.
  • This case is one of 30 Alabama reports filed in 2018.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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