CaseRectangle2012

Galesburg, IL, USA

Extremely fast dark rectangle, 2 amber lights, south to north.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-16
Where
Galesburg, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
40.948, -90.371 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-galesburg-il-2012-1ccccb
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

  • Galesburg, IL shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 270 reports came from Illinois in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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