UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2020

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

strange extraterrestrial like object turns red flames off when realizing that they’re exposed and then disappears

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-09-13
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-virginia-beach-va-2020-b02bdd
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 September 2020.

In context

  • Virginia Beach, VA shows up 176 times across the archive.
  • 106 reports came from Virginia in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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