UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Osceola, IN, USA

((HOAX??)) While I was outside, I observed an Orb flying low zipping around like it was filming the area.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-02-28
Where
Osceola, IN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
41.665, -86.076 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-osceola-in-2016-6ba925
Wave

Part of a wave

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    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Osceola, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 86 sightings in 2016.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

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