UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2018

Charleston, IL, USA

Silver rectangle UFO over Charleston, IL.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-25
Where
Charleston, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
39.496, -88.176 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-charleston-il-2018-11765c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Charleston, 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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