CaseRectangle2019

Hatfield, MA, USA

Object in the sky with diamond array of lights floating above river

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-03-14
Where
Hatfield, MA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
42.371, -72.598 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-hatfield-ma-2019-7a6921
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Hatfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 117 sightings in 2019.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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