CaseRectangle2018

Calhoun, IL, USA

There was three people that saw this and there was two planes went by it and then disappeared right before our eyes. The light was brig

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-20
Where
Calhoun, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
Every half hour
Geo
38.650, -88.044 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-calhoun-il-2018-fd9923
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 2 documented reports from Calhoun, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 104 sightings in 2018.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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