CaseRectangle2009

Harrington, DE, USA

It sat still for ten miutnes then out of nowhere made a sharp right turn and took off faster then anything ive ever seen

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-01
Where
Harrington, DE, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.924, -75.578 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-harrington-de-2009-ce96d5
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Harrington, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Delaware logged 9 sightings in 2009.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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