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
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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