UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2009

Interstate 75 (between Mile Markers 270 & 276), FL, USA

Rectangular UFO sighted on I-75 in Florida

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-02
Where
Interstate 75 (between Mile Markers 270 & 276), FL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
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Slug
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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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Interstate 75 (between Mile Markers 270 & 276), FL shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 254 reports came from Florida in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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