CaseRectangle2010
Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
Rectangular black object floating out at sea.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-05-05
- Where
- Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 55.952, -3.196 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-edinburgh-uk-scotland-2010-8fa8a3
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
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Edinburgh (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 142 United Kingdom reports filed in 2010.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.