CaseSphere2005

Hood River, OR, USA

I sighted VERY large blue-green meteor of extended duration in the sky near Portland OR ((NUFORC Note: Probable meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-03-12
Where
Hood River, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 to 4 seconds
Geo
45.705, -121.521 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-hood-river-or-2005-e5eb4e
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…

In context

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Hood River, OR.
  • This case is one of 108 Oregon reports filed in 2005.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

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