CaseCircle2021

Albany, OR, USA

Saw a round bright light in sky not moving or blinking like stars do when I zoomed in on video looked like a heat signature of a body i

Report quality: Moderate59/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-09-23
Where
Albany, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Unsure
Geo
44.637, -123.106 · exact
Slug
circle-over-albany-or-2021-233a34
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Albany, OR shows up 60 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Oregon in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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