Madras (?), OR, USA
Orange sphere seen by at least two people from Vancouver, Washington, off to the SE over OR. ((NUFORC Note: Mars. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (92 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
- 2018-07-09
- Where
- Madras (?), OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 44.633, -121.129 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-madras-or-2018-61b129
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…
In context
- Madras (?), OR has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 100 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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