CaseRectangle2011

Alligator Alley/Miami, FL, USA

Alligator Alley / large Rectangular Craft with big circular lights on its underside flying low and fast at night.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-04-01
Where
Alligator Alley/Miami, FL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
25.774, -80.194 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-alligator-alley-miami-fl-2011-fff6a7
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 1 documented reports from Alligator Alley/Miami, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 338 sightings in 2011.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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