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CaseOval2016

Vancouver, WA, USA

Driving down to downtown Vancouver, WA, seen a blimp shaped object towards west hills of Portland. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-16
Where
Vancouver, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
45.639, -122.661 · exact
Slug
oval-over-vancouver-wa-2016-e31722
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Vancouver, WA reports filed in July 2016.

In context

  • Vancouver, WA shows up 223 times across the archive.
  • 229 reports came from Washington in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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