CaseRectangle2018

Port Hope, ON, Canada

Fast Moving White Rectangle Light with a foggy light hue.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-04
Where
Port Hope, ON, Canada
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
44.017, -78.400 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-port-hope-on-2018-c52851
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

  • Port Hope, Canada shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 92 reports came from Canada in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.