Metzitlan (vicinity of)(Hidalgo)(Mexico), Mexico
Single glowing object observed sometime in late afternoon. As I recall, it was not moving. Took a picture. When enlarged it is rectangu
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-15
- Where
- Metzitlan (vicinity of)(Hidalgo)(Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
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- Slug
- rectangle-over-metzitlan-vicinity-of-hidalgo-mexico-2017-09be55
Part of a wave
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
- Metzitlan (vicinity of)(Hidalgo)(Mexico), Mexico shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Mexico in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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