UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1997

Oregon (rural), OR, USA

noisy rectangular object falling from the sky and crash landed

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-01
Where
Oregon (rural), OR, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
45.357, -122.607 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-oregon-rural-or-1997-865e29
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Oregon (rural), OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from Oregon in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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