CaseSphere2018

Cape Mears, OR, USA

Early in the morning on July, 23, 2018, my husband and I were sleeping in a tent very close to the oceans edge. At 4:50 a.m. we were bo

Report quality: Moderate67/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-07-23
Where
Cape Mears, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-cape-mears-or-2018-3bb332
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Cape Mears, OR reports filed in July 2018.

In context

  • Cape Mears, OR shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 100 reports came from Oregon in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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