UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2011

Highland Park, IL, USA

4 square lighted windows in the sky-stationary- above the tree line.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-05-17
Where
Highland Park, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5-10 mins
Geo
42.182, -87.800 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-highland-park-il-2011-42bdb1
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

  • Highland Park, IL shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 219 reports came from Illinois in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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