CaseCircle2012

Seaside, OR, USA

Red/Orange bright lights off Seaside Oregon Beach.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-15
Where
Seaside, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
45.993, -123.923 · exact
Slug
circle-over-seaside-or-2012-50ba23
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Seaside, OR in July 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Seaside, OR has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 181 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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