Mechanicsville, VA, USA
4 balloon looking with glows like gassing then disappeared. In pictures they look more rectangular but not to naked eye. Driving in a r
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-26
- Where
- Mechanicsville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.609, -77.373 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-mechanicsville-va-2018-13ee1a
Part of a wave
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
- Mechanicsville, VA shows up 13 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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