Ashland, OR, USA
a changing ball of light/object that vanished entirely after a few minutes
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-11
- Where
- Ashland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- about ten minutes
- Geo
- 42.195, -122.709 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-ashland-or-2005-6f17b5
Part of a wave
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
- Ashland, OR has 28 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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