CaseRectangle2007

Melville, NY, USA

I was in the car with my mother,It was about 8:30 pm when i spotted two square objects in the skye. They were bright and stationary. Th

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2007-07-21
Where
Melville, NY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
half hour
Geo
40.793, -73.415 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-melville-ny-2007-126e33
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

  • Melville, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 173 reports from New York.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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