CaseRectangle2011

Troy, NC, USA

I was driving home about 9:00 and in the sky was a bright rectangle light just sitting above the tree's right in front of me. I did not

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-10-25
Where
Troy, NC, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 min
Geo
35.358, -79.894 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-troy-nc-2011-bf83ab
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Troy, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 195 sightings in 2011.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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