CaseRectangle2015

Belleville, IL, USA

Very fast rectangular shape craft.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-13
Where
Belleville, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
6-8 seconds
Geo
38.520, -89.984 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-belleville-il-2015-eee545
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 18 documented reports from Belleville, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.