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
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.