UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2017

Hamilton (Canada), ON, Canada

Larger than a car. Dark gray rectangle object hovering 1000 feet over the southern western part of Lake Ontario. Look like a large flag

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-11
Where
Hamilton (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
43.250, -79.850 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-hamilton-canada-on-2017-98fdac
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

  • Hamilton (Canada), Canada shows up 61 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from Canada in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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