UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Thornton, CO, USA

Black rectangle glided across the sky at 100 to 200 feet in elevation over a residential neighborhood in broad daylight.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-24
Where
Thornton, CO, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.868, -104.972 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-thornton-co-2016-c0488f
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 40 reports logged in Thornton, CO.
  • This case is one of 201 Colorado reports filed in 2016.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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