UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA

We spotted an oval-shaped aircraft while driving on route one; did not fly like a helicopter and was too round to be a plane; flying in

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-31
Where
Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.721, -75.076 · exact
Slug
oval-over-rehoboth-beach-de-2016-089ff2
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

  • One of 12 documented reports from Rehoboth Beach, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Delaware logged 19 sightings in 2016.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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