CaseRectangle2012

Ithaca, NY, USA

Ithaca, New York Sighting 9/21 8:48PM

Report quality: Moderate54/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-09-21
Where
Ithaca, NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4'- 5 seconds
Geo
42.441, -76.497 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-ithaca-ny-2012-d58a3e
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

  • This is one of 31 reports logged in Ithaca, NY.
  • This case is one of 383 New York reports filed in 2012.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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