CaseChanging2018

Prineville, OR, USA

Was sitting in car on top of a view point and kept seeing a bright light. We saw a helicopter going towards the object and before it go

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-03-26
Where
Prineville, OR, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
44.300, -120.834 · exact
Slug
changing-over-prineville-or-2018-d9e563
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

  • Prineville, OR has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 100 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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