CaseRectangle2001

South Bend, IN, USA

Name: UFO sighting — South Bend, IN, USA
Start: 2001-08-14
Location: South Bend, IN, USA

At 1342, a low flying, very fast, black coffin shaped UFO flys directly over my head and behind a treeline.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
Moderate witness text (107 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2001-08-14
Where: South Bend, IN, USA
Shape: Rectangle
Duration: 4 sec.
Geo: 41.683, -86.250 · exact
Slug: rectangle-over-south-bend-in-2001-18d335

In context

South Bend, IN shows up 58 times across the archive.
39 reports came from Indiana in 2001.
In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

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