CaseRectangle2013

Hector, MN, USA

Blue light coming from sky, saw a pitch black rectangle unknown gliding to the right and back in the sky

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-21
Where
Hector, MN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
30 min
Geo
44.744, -94.716 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-hector-mn-2013-dd2a28
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 Hector, MN.
  • This case is one of 126 Minnesota reports filed in 2013.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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