CaseCircle2000
Bend, OR, USA
Round silvery object above city, possibly car size mylar balloon,seen from a few miles away slowly ascended till out of sight.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-11-11
- Where
- Bend, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3minutes
- Geo
- 44.058, -121.315 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bend-or-2000-957be2
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Bend, OR reports filed in November 2000.
In context
- Bend, OR shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Oregon in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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