CaseRectangle1979
Mobile, AL, USA
Rectangular object motionless in the sky over the Gulf of Mexico for 4 to 5 mintues which shot off straight up and was gone in less tha
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-09-17
- Where
- Mobile, AL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 4 to 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.694, -88.043 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-mobile-al-1979-1f4f39
In context
- One of 65 documented reports from Mobile, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 2 sightings in 1979.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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