UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Hermiston, OR, USA

2 fireballs and a cylinder shaped craft spotted in Eastern Oregon.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-10-20
Where
Hermiston, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
45.840, -119.289 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hermiston-or-2012-02f076
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

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In context

  • Hermiston, OR has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 181 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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