Portland, OR, USA
Square object flying south about 1000ft above ground.
Report quality: High74/100
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
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-28
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-portland-or-2020-da6633
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
July 2020 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 237 Oregon reports filed in 2020.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.8% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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