Bend, OR, USA
Slow moving beautiful green light heading downward, then shot off couldn't see it anywhere.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-25
- Where
- Bend, OR, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20 second
- Geo
- 44.058, -121.315 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-bend-or-2015-0e614d
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Bend, OR reports filed in January 2015.
In context
- Bend, OR shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 215 reports came from Oregon in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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