UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2018

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Large invisible/black rectangular craft with red and green lights at the corners. As soon as I realized what I was seeing. I tried to g

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-07-04
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-philadelphia-pa-2018-87de97
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

  • Philadelphia, PA has 203 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 94 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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