UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2014

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

On July 5 at 11:45 p.m., I was with my dogs in the backyard during their potty break because one is scared of fireworks.

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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-05
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
60-90 seconds
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-virginia-beach-va-2014-9416b8
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Virginia Beach, VA reports filed in July 2014.

In context

  • Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
  • 184 reports came from Virginia in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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