CaseRectangle2020

Hancock, NH, USA

Brief flash of light and metal object seemed to disintegrate and disappear.

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-14
Where
Hancock, NH, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
<1 second
Geo
42.973, -71.980 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-hancock-nh-2020-3f7d48
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Hancock, NH.
  • This case is one of 87 New Hampshire reports filed in 2020.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.8% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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