CaseTriangle1962

Beaverton, OR, USA

Witnesses in Beaverton, Oregon described a triangular object approaching in daylight in August 1962 that stopped at a short distance and stayed clearly visible for about two minutes.

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 (182 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1962-08-01
Where
Beaverton, OR, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
45.487, -122.804 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-beaverton-or-1962-778bb5

In context

  • Beaverton, OR shows up 93 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Oregon in 1962.
  • In the 1960s, 4.3% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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