UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1997

Stafford, VA, USA

I SAW A LARGE DARK RECTANGULAR OBJECT IN THE SKY.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-07
Where
Stafford, VA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2:00 minutes
Geo
38.422, -77.408 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-stafford-va-1997-d042b2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 31 documented reports from Stafford, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 23 sightings in 1997.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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