CaseCircle2017

Medford, OR, USA

Circular craft 600-1000' off the ground and would shoot up to the elev. of most high flying planes within seconds. ((no contact info.))

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-20
Where
Medford, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45
Geo
42.327, -122.876 · exact
Slug
circle-over-medford-or-2017-318ebe
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

  • Medford, OR shows up 75 times across the archive.
  • 127 reports came from Oregon in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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