UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

McMinnville, OR, USA

Was walking to my car approximately midnight and saw a bright red object near the vicinity of Jupiter (due West, approx. 15 degrees abo

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-05-20
Where
McMinnville, OR, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
45.210, -123.199 · exact
Slug
disk-over-mcminnville-or-2016-c972b3
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 27 documented reports from McMinnville, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 167 sightings in 2016.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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