UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Quincy, MA, USA

Small to medium size, thought it might be a drone. The object went over the highway going west,turned north and disappeared in second

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-24
Where
Quincy, MA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
42.253, -71.002 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-quincy-ma-2016-49c9f5
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 20 documented reports from Quincy, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 115 sightings in 2016.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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