CaseRectangle2009

Mineral Wells, TX, USA

About 25mph and silent tablet shaped bottom covered in small dimley lit light blue lights. About 50 ft long and 150 ft off the ground

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 (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-01
Where
Mineral Wells, TX, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
32.808, -98.113 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-mineral-wells-tx-2009-0ab3e9
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

  • Mineral Wells, TX shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 266 reports came from Texas in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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