CaseRectangle2008

Oak Ridge, TN, USA

((HOAX)) black house size no noise 50 feet away 50 off ground

Report quality: Low12/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-11-24
Where
Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
sec
Geo
36.010, -84.270 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-oak-ridge-tn-2008-e70d95
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 15 reports logged in Oak Ridge, TN.
  • This case is one of 102 Tennessee reports filed in 2008.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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