UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2020

Oquawka, IL, USA

Observed a single rectangular aircraft traveling from east to west maintaining a altitude of approximately 15,000 ft or less at roughly

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-29
Where
Oquawka, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
40.932, -90.947 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-oquawka-il-2020-c56065
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…

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In context

  • Oquawka, IL has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 169 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.8% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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