UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Newport, OR, USA

Very bright orb to the west over ocean. Was not the moon. Full moon on the 7th. Brighter than anything around. Below the white orb was

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-14
Where
Newport, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
44.637, -124.053 · exact
Slug
circle-over-newport-or-2020-a8d2fa
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Newport, OR shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 237 reports came from Oregon in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% 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.