Victoria (Canada), BC, Canada
slow moving rectangle lifts away from hover position and vanishes in a flash
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-22
- Where
- Victoria (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 48.436, -123.352 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-victoria-canada-bc-2004-c743db
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…
In context
- Victoria (Canada), Canada has 93 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 362 reports from Canada.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.