Shape Profile
Rectangle Sightings
3,698 reports describe a rectangle-shaped object — 1.72% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
3,698
Share of all sightings
1.72%
Top state
CA
447 reports
Peak decade
2010s
1,510 reports
Trend by decade
are rectangles rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 rectangle sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-07 | Rehoboth Beach | DE | 3 Videos 1 minute | Took my dog out, noticed some objects in the sky that did not look natural, took a video, immediately said to my son I... |
| 2023-11-24 | Dothan | AL | 5 seconds | Blue rectangle appear, above the trees, about 30' high, above us, and then shoots off to the West. |
| 2023-11-16 | Burbank | WA | 45 seconds | Large hovering craft, silently floated away when I stopped my car, at night with lights |
| 2023-11-15 | Lincolnshire | IL | 10-12 seconds | Platform type craft traveling low over forest with lights illuminating the top but no lights on bottom, at night. |
| 2023-11-11 | Windham | ME | 2 seconds | Floating rectangle with 3 lights |
| 2023-11-08 | Fredericksburg | VA | A few seconds | Rectangle aircraft with two green semi circles at each end |
| 2023-11-08 | Lakewood Ranch | FL | Less than a minute | 3 separate moving craft spotted between 5:36pm and 5:45pm, all coming across the sky from a similar point of origin and... |
| 2023-11-06 | Lancaster | TX | TEXAS | On a Sunday evening I was setting on my couch in the Livingroom, and I hear a loud sound over my head but didn't think... |
| 2023-10-19 | Wittmann | AZ | 15 seconds | Saw a perfect skinny rectangle flash at me 2 times with a bright white light |
| 2023-10-16 | Pasadena | CA | 15 seconds | Rectangular white object suspended in the sky over Pasadena. |
| 2023-10-14 | Tewksbury | MA | 15 to 20 min | Bright Rectangular objects in sky |
| 2023-10-10 | Buffalo Valley | OK | Less than five minutes | Shiny craft with two gray squares towards both ends not moving |
| 2023-10-10 | Ventura | CA | 10 min+ til out of view | Very bright objects with 5-6 non-blinking lights on each, flying side by side usually see only one |
| 2023-10-02 | Elyria | OH | 2 minutes | Rectangle in sky about an hour before sunset |
| 2023-09-30 | Clyde | NC | 20 seconds | Me and my family saw a large rectangular reflective craft above our house for about 20-30 seconds. |
| 2023-09-20 | Arizona City | AZ | 2 to 3 Seconds | Glowing green with white lights on it |
| 2023-09-19 | Strong City | KS | 3 minutes | Bright white dots (4 pin heads) coming up in a vertical line from ground level northwest approximately 3/4" apart... |
| 2023-09-14 | East Bridgewater | MA | Hovered for over a minute | Saw four large rectangle shaped white lights hovering in the distance. |
| 2023-09-11 | Swan Lake | NY | .32 seconds | Hovering rectangular lights approximately five feet off driveway |
| 2023-09-10 | Bass Lake | IN | Seconds | Object flew past our aircraft at 10,000 feet within 200 yards of our right wing. |