UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2012

Alsip, IL, USA

Elongated rectangular object flying slower than an airplane, but faster than a blimp.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-18
Where
Alsip, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.669, -87.739 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-alsip-il-2012-5391c4
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

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Alsip, IL.
  • This case is one of 270 Illinois reports filed in 2012.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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