CaseRectangle2021
Hampden, MA, USA
Shiny, glinting, amazig maneuvers
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-09-18
- Where
- Hampden, MA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds to a minite
- Geo
- 42.064, -72.413 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-hampden-ma-2021-424503
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Hampden, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 69 sightings in 2021.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.