CaseRectangle2012

Portsmouth, NH, USA

Large house sized object floating in mid-air near Portsmouth traffic circle.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-13
Where
Portsmouth, NH, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
43.077, -70.758 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-portsmouth-nh-2012-a2bf11
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

  • One of 20 documented reports from Portsmouth, NH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Hampshire logged 80 sightings in 2012.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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