CaseRectangle2008

Stamford, CT, USA

Two craft over pond with pilot and electronic equipment to make contact with lighted hollograms observed through digital camera.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-28
Where
Stamford, CT, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 hours
Geo
41.053, -73.539 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-stamford-ct-2008-290629
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…

In context

  • Stamford, CT shows up 30 times across the archive.
  • 62 reports came from Connecticut in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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