UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2015

Orient, OR, USA

While driving at sunset I saw a hovering, vertical, cylindrical object glowing in the sun, which then separated into two objects.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-12-30
Where
Orient, OR, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
45.467, -122.353 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-orient-or-2015-b6fe5f
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Orient, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 215 sightings in 2015.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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