Pine Knoll Shores, OR, USA
The orange flying object had the shape of a space capsule or burner from a hot air balloon and could not have been an aircraft.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-01
- Where
- Pine Knoll Shores, OR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 34.697, -76.813 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-pine-knoll-shores-or-2014-afa507
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
- Pine Knoll Shores, OR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 227 reports from Oregon.
Report
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