Albany, OR, USA
Woman and adult daughter witness cluster of orange lights near the Albany Hospital.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-04
- Where
- Albany, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.637, -123.106 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-albany-or-2013-412506
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
- Albany, OR shows up 60 times across the archive.
- 189 reports came from Oregon in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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