UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Astoria, OR, USA

Bright flaming orange orb, with blue pulses of light emitted every few minutes, flying over the water and was completely silent.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-14
Where
Astoria, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
46.188, -123.831 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-astoria-or-2015-96cd4e
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

  • Astoria, OR shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 215 reports came from Oregon in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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