CaseRectangle2015

Methuen, MA, USA

Driving home on a major HWY and a shiny metallic rectangular object appeared to my left and was completely stationary. I looked away f

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-12
Where
Methuen, MA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.726, -71.191 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-methuen-ma-2015-cbb759
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 25 reports logged in Methuen, MA.
  • This case is one of 146 Massachusetts reports filed in 2015.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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