CaseRectangle2017

East Longmeadow, MA, USA

Craft watching 3th of July fireworks from above.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-03
Where
East Longmeadow, MA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.065, -72.513 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-east-longmeadow-ma-2017-1c9292
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

  • East Longmeadow, MA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 100 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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