Rectangle over about halfway between DFW airport and TLH airport, -
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While on a flight between DFW and Tallahassee (TLH) probably an hour into the flight, I was looking out the window at the cloud layer below and saw in the south a very stark black, long rectangle in the distance for about 30-40 seconds. I kept trying to look more closely, but I can share that it had sharp lines and looked long enough that maybe it included multiple rectangles, but was not very wide. But it was black and looked odd against the clouds. It did not seem to be moving. Then after after staring at it for around 30 seconds it seemed to disappear - possible in the clouds?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172500). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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