UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2012

Paducah, KY, USA

Blue, long rectangle, silent, fast, bigger than a bus.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-18
Where
Paducah, KY, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3-10 seconds
Geo
37.083, -88.600 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-paducah-ky-2012-100e2b
Wave

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  • 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 20 documented reports from Paducah, KY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kentucky logged 65 sightings in 2012.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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