UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Champaign, IL, USA

Rectangular silver panel with nothing else around it; below the clouds; made no sounds; took a sharp turn; gave me the creeps.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-08
Where
Champaign, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.116, -88.243 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-champaign-il-2016-2e9dd1
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

  • Champaign, IL shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 156 reports came from Illinois in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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