CaseRectangle2020

Portland, OR, USA

It was a clear night sky. I was looking east when 3 black objects flew by in formation from North to South. They looked large and they

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-21
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-portland-or-2020-813736
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Portland, OR in November 2020 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 237 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.8% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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