UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2008

Melbourne, FL, USA

While riding home after 5:00 pm, I saw a rectangle shape object as big as a football field in the sky over the ocean moving from north

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-21
Where
Melbourne, FL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5:15 pm
Geo
28.084, -80.608 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-melbourne-fl-2008-baf880
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Melbourne, FL shows up 60 times across the archive.
  • 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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