Vale, OR, USA
In desert area of Malheur County observed 2 Triangular shaped craft, each containing 3 red lights. One craft floated directly over us.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-19
- Where
- Vale, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 43.982, -117.238 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-vale-or-2009-b85562
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 2 reports logged in Vale, OR.
- This case is one of 80 Oregon reports filed in 2009.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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