Hillsboro, OR, USA
We live off of 201st and baseline we saw a point with a thin tail that looked like bright white sparklers fireworks flying through the
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-14
- Where
- Hillsboro, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.990 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hillsboro-or-2015-13fbcc
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
- Hillsboro, OR shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 215 reports came from Oregon in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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