Maupin, OR, USA
2130 object flashed on for about 2 full seconds then off for 5 seconds each time at roughly 5 deg. track object in outer space
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-16
- Where
- Maupin, OR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 45.175, -121.081 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-maupin-or-2004-3a546a
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
- Maupin, OR has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 93 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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