UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Oswego, IL, USA

((HOAX??))3 lights.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (9 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-01-06
Where
Oswego, IL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.683, -88.351 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-oswego-il-2016-1ec7a7
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…

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In context

  • One of 17 documented reports from Oswego, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Illinois logged 156 sightings in 2016.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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