CaseCigar2015
Gaston, OR, USA
Bright light in the morning.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-30
- Where
- Gaston, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 45.436, -123.140 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-gaston-or-2015-aba9c5
Wave
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
- Gaston, OR shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 215 reports came from Oregon in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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