CaseChanging2009

Albany, OR, USA

UFO over I-5 near Albany, Oregon on 7/18/2009.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-18
Where
Albany, OR, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
44.637, -123.106 · exact
Slug
changing-over-albany-or-2009-801d08
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…

In context

  • This is one of 60 reports logged in Albany, OR.
  • This case is one of 80 Oregon reports filed in 2009.
  • Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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