CaseRectangle2009
North Charleston, SC, USA
Mysterious black rectangular object in the North Charleston sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-01
- Where
- North Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.855, -79.975 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-north-charleston-sc-2009-0a7813
Wave
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
- North Charleston, SC shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 68 reports came from South Carolina in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.