Beaverton, OR, USA
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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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Beaverton, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- @ 5 seconds
- Geo
- 45.487, -122.804 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-beaverton-or-1965-08fdf7
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 93 reports logged in Beaverton, OR.
- This case is one of 4 Oregon reports filed in 1965.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% 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.