Florence, OR, USA
Bright White Round object over ocean near Sea Lion Caves in mid coast Oregon
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-16
- Where
- Florence, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5-6 seconds
- Geo
- 43.983, -124.100 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-florence-or-2017-76a82c
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
- Florence, OR has 27 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 127 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.