UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2009

Raleigh, NC, USA

raleigh nc - ufo spotted east of the city - rectangle craft, reflecting in the sun - extreme hig altitude and fast

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-07
Where
Raleigh, NC, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
35.772, -78.639 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-raleigh-nc-2009-60dce8
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

  • Raleigh, NC shows up 118 times across the archive.
  • 125 reports came from North Carolina in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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