Umatilla National Forest, OR, USA
My friend and I witnessed a long, straight, segmented craft (approximately two inches). ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-05-24
- Where
- Umatilla National Forest, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-umatilla-national-forest-or-2019-f7a652
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Umatilla National Forest, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 133 sightings in 2019.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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