CaseRectangle2013
Shepherdstown, WV, USA
Four bright orange red lights in Shepherdstown, WV.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-17
- Where
- Shepherdstown, WV, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.430, -77.804 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-shepherdstown-wv-2013-c268b9
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Shepherdstown, WV.
- This case is one of 58 West Virginia reports filed in 2013.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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