South Beach, OR, USA
Flashing "star." Erratic flight pattern and great speed. Suddenly disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-20
- Where
- South Beach, OR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 44.613, -124.049 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-south-beach-or-2012-802be8
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
- South Beach, OR shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 181 reports came from Oregon in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.