CaseRectangle2011

Waterbury, VT, USA

Blimp-shaped object with large, non-blinking lights. Counted 6-7 airplanes in the vicinity at the time.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-02-04
Where
Waterbury, VT, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 min
Geo
44.338, -72.756 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-waterbury-vt-2011-3e556c
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

  • Waterbury, VT has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 23 reports from Vermont.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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