UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2012

Manzanita, OR, USA

A rectangle object crossed the sky in 30 seconds followed by an orange light hovering for about 5 minutes.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-07
Where
Manzanita, OR, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
45.718, -123.935 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-manzanita-or-2012-4051e8
Wave

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Manzanita, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 181 sightings in 2012.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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