CaseSphere2017

Lebanon, OR, USA

Bright red or orange spherical object. First spotted near alpha Cygnus headed south-southeast. Very bright,sputtered and dissappearing

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-13
Where
Lebanon, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
44.537, -122.907 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lebanon-or-2017-a10b57
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

  • Lebanon, OR shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 127 reports came from Oregon in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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