UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1978

Monroe-Bastrop, LA, USA

Rectangular bright craft on Hwy 139 From Monroe to Bastrop,LA.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-21
Where
Monroe-Bastrop, LA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
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Slug
rectangle-over-monroe-bastrop-la-1978-7b967c
Wave

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Monroe-Bastrop, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Louisiana logged 6 sightings in 1978.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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