Medford, OR, USA
Large very bright sphere of white light in Southwestern sky coming to earth entering from south to north.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-20
- Where
- Medford, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- aprox. 5 min.
- Geo
- 42.327, -122.876 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-medford-or-2012-dec30d
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
- Medford, OR has 75 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 181 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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