Manzanita, OR, USA
Wedge, 70' off the ground, Moving NE at approx. 15 MPH towards Washington state. Very large with Red flashing lights and no sound.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-04
- Where
- Manzanita, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 45.718, -123.935 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-manzanita-or-2004-b16152
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Manzanita, OR.
- This case is one of 93 Oregon reports filed in 2004.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.