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CaseSphere2011

Banks, OR, USA

LARGE WHITE BALL OF WHITE LIGHT HOVERING OVER NEAR CEDAR CANYON RD AND HWY 6 AREA OF BANKS, OREGON. WHEN APPROACHED BY A JET IT LEFT IN

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-13
Where
Banks, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 MIN
Geo
45.619, -123.114 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-banks-or-2011-df792b
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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In context

  • Banks, OR has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 116 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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