CaseCircle2002
Merlin, OR, USA
strange light that changed all colors in the sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-02-14
- Where
- Merlin, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 42.517, -123.420 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-merlin-or-2002-278903
In context
- Merlin, OR shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 97 reports came from Oregon in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate 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.