CaseRectangle2013

Goshen, IN, USA

Couple sees slow-moving, large, rectangular object in the night sky as it flies directly over them.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-15
Where
Goshen, IN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.582, -85.834 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-goshen-in-2013-42ad0b
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

  • Goshen, IN shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 146 reports came from Indiana in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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