UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2020

Melbourne, FL, USA

I was driving northbound on I-95 around 9:00 am when I noticed an accident in the opposite southbound lane with traffic building up. As

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-29
Where
Melbourne, FL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
28.084, -80.608 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-melbourne-fl-2020-fe4bd9
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…

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In context

  • One of 60 documented reports from Melbourne, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 403 sightings in 2020.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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