Scappoose, OR, USA
Long silver cigar shaped object witnessed moving slowly across sky from east to west.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-07
- Where
- Scappoose, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 45.754, -122.878 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-scappoose-or-2020-1a2295
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 15 reports logged in Scappoose, OR.
- This case is one of 237 Oregon reports filed in 2020.
- Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s 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.