CaseCone2005

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
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

  • 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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