Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa
standing out side my back door, when two rectangle shaped crafts hovered over a field across the side of my house for about two minutes
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-10
- Where
- Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- -33.926, 18.423 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-cape-town-south-africa-2004-0d9c71
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
- Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from South Africa in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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