UFOMYST
CaseSphere2007

McMinnville, OR, USA

Spherical object scene, hovering moving back and forth and up and down fairly rapidly, Clear skys no clouds in the southwestern sky, up

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: 3150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-01-11
Where
McMinnville, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
45-60 Min
Geo
45.210, -123.199 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mcminnville-or-2007-10f5b9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 27 reports logged in McMinnville, OR.
  • This case is one of 113 Oregon reports filed in 2007.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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