CaseRectangle2015

New Waterford, OH, USA

I was driving West on route 46 towards the town of New Waterford Ohio, about 9:30 am on May 7, 2015. I looked up at the sky and noticed

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-07
Where
New Waterford, OH, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.845, -80.615 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-new-waterford-oh-2015-9d65b7
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 New Waterford, OH.
  • This case is one of 214 Ohio reports filed in 2015.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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