Cape Mears, OR, USA
I walked out and looked over the ocean and saw two bright orbs, about the size of a basketball, over the ocean.
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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
- Moderate witness text (111 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-b0b2cc
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
Cape Mears, OR logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2018.
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Cape Mears, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 100 sightings in 2018.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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