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
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- Slug
- sphere-over-cape-mears-or-2018-3bb332
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…
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
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.