CaseRectangle2016
Pittsfielsd, MA, USA
Glowing orange rectangular object, slow moving and making no sound.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-29
- Where
- Pittsfielsd, MA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- rectangle-over-pittsfielsd-ma-2016-8e6b0e
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
- Pittsfielsd, MA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Massachusetts in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% 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.