Yachats, OR, USA
Looking to eastern Ridge up Yachats River canyon. Viewed craft for approx 25 minutes before it faded out.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-05
- Where
- Yachats, OR, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 44.311, -124.105 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-yachats-or-2018-9a51a1
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
- Yachats, OR shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Oregon in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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