CaseRectangle2005

Mississippi (in flight; near delta of Mississippi River), MS, USA

Passenger witnesses peculiar, rectangular object track his aircraft.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-31
Where
Mississippi (in flight; near delta of Mississippi River), MS, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5-7 seconds
Geo
30.382, -89.044 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-mississippi-in-flight-near-delta-of-mississippi-river-ms-2005-ca21a2
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 1 reports logged in Mississippi (in flight; near delta of Mississippi River), MS.
  • This case is one of 22 Mississippi reports filed in 2005.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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