CaseRectangle2018
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Long, black, rectangle.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-06
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-philadelphia-pa-2018-b6edea
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
- This is one of 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 94 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2018.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.