Newport, OR, USA
Fanned out cones with pointy bright lighted nose. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect lens flares. Witness concurs. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-04-24
- Where
- Newport, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 44.637, -124.053 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-newport-or-2005-20d651
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 21 documented reports from Newport, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 108 sightings in 2005.
- Cone sightings ran at 0.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.4%).
Report
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