UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Astoria, OR, USA

My daughter and I saw a round light floating across the sky above the Columbia river through our living room window, I ran outside to g

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-10
Where
Astoria, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
46.188, -123.831 · exact
Slug
circle-over-astoria-or-2016-c94510
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…

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In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Astoria, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 167 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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