CaseFireball2008

La Grande, OR, USA

Located 1/4 mile from Morgan lake, a large, spark shooting green glowing fire ball was descending from East to West of the lake.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-12
Where
La Grande, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
45.325, -118.088 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-la-grande-or-2008-6d15ec
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

  • This is one of 17 reports logged in La Grande, OR.
  • This case is one of 93 Oregon reports filed in 2008.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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