CaseRectangle2018

Henrico, VA, USA

Narrow mostly rectangle shape with single file lights seen in southeastern sky and then just gone like switch flipped.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-06-01
Where
Henrico, VA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
6-8 minutes +/-
Geo
36.593, -78.616 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-henrico-va-2018-5bb711
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

  • Henrico, VA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 74 reports came from Virginia in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 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.