◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Maassluis Kite
On 11 April 2014 a resident of Maassluis in the Netherlands filmed a blue lens-shaped object with a dome hovering over the Rotterdam port area in daylight, and the footage spread as a rare daytime saucer. It was identified as a large blue Rokkaku kite used for aerial photography, and its owner confirmed it. This is the record of a film and of its solution.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Maassluis Kite is a reported UAP case in Maassluis, Netherlands, Netherlands, 11 April 2014.
- The blue domed object Dick Smits filmed over the Rotterdam port area from Maassluis on 11 April 2014 was identified as a large blue Rokkaku kite used for aerial photography.
- Hans Elbers, the owner of the kite, confirmed on Flickr that the object in Smits's 2014 Maassluis film was his.
- Retellings of the 2014 Maassluis film said slow-motion review revealed more objects, one shooting rapidly upward.
- Aerospace expert Koen Vermeeren called the Maassluis footage a clear saucer shape and unusual daytime evidence.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 2 distinct sources and 2 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The case is resolved: it was identified as a Rokkaku kite. Identified from the footage and confirmed by the kite's owner.
- A resolved case sits off the evidence ladder, so the archive marks it RESOLVED · IDENTIFIED rather than grading how well sourced the original reports were.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
11 April 2014
LOCATION
Maassluis, Netherlands · Netherlands
COORDS
51.92°N 4.25°E
INDEPENDENCE
RESOLVED · IDENTIFIED
SOURCES
2 distinct
CLAIMANTS
2
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
