UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2009

South Bend, WA, USA

Rectangular pattern appears and disappears after bright flash

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-15
Where
South Bend, WA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
seconds
Geo
46.663, -123.805 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-south-bend-wa-2009-36971a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in South Bend, WA.
  • This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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