Budapest (Hungary), Hungary
Large, rectangular object obscuring portions of full moon over Budapest, Hungary.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-20
- Where
- Budapest (Hungary), Hungary
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 47.498, 19.040 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-budapest-hungary-2016-9b6ff7
Part of a wave
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
- Budapest (Hungary), Hungary shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Hungary in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 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.