La Grande, OR, USA
fireball in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Probable dramatic meteor at 19:45 hrs. on this date. PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (19 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-03-12
- Where
- La Grande, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Unknown
- Geo
- 45.325, -118.088 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-la-grande-or-2005-cf7a09
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
- La Grande, OR has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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