CaseRectangle2010
Decatur, IL, USA
((HOAX??)) small and white
Report quality: Low14/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-06-26
- Where
- Decatur, IL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 39.840, -88.955 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-decatur-il-2010-af30f9
Wave
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Decatur, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 208 sightings in 2010.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.