Yamhill, OR, USA
I saw a long object (maybe 3/4 mile long) on the sky moving very slowly without any sound. It looked like a strip of LED lights.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-07
- Where
- Yamhill, OR, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 45.342, -123.187 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-yamhill-or-2020-53ff42
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
- Yamhill, OR shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 237 reports came from Oregon in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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