CaseCircle2008

Lebanon, OR, USA

Bright, amber object in the sky with brilliant, glittering, colored lights throughout. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-03
Where
Lebanon, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 1/2 minutes
Geo
44.537, -122.907 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lebanon-or-2008-4f0e3f
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

  • Lebanon, OR shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Oregon in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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.