CaseCircle2005

Dallas, OR, USA

Buring orange sphere burning out over Salem Oregon

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-01-04
Where
Dallas, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 min
Geo
44.919, -123.317 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dallas-or-2005-aafbf2
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

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Dallas, OR.
  • This case is one of 108 Oregon reports filed in 2005.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% 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.