CaseRectangle2007

Roca, NE, USA

((HOAX??)) This made me an alcoholic. ((NUFORC Note: Because of the profanity in the original version, we suspect a hoax here. PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2007-10-24
Where
Roca, NE, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.657, -96.658 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-roca-ne-2007-db5105
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

  • Roca, NE has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 29 reports from Nebraska.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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