UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2005

South Bend, IN, USA

Repeated white rectangle and round object by airport and hiding behind cloud

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-23
Where
South Bend, IN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10-15 mts
Geo
41.683, -86.250 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-south-bend-in-2005-78f521
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • South Bend, IN shows up 58 times across the archive.
  • 85 reports came from Indiana in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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