Hillsboro, OR, USA
I was in my boyfriend's car with two of our friends. My boyfriend yells, “get out of the car! Look!. We got out and saw three “fireball
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: 67s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-03-19
- Where
- Hillsboro, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 67 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.990 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hillsboro-or-2018-54ca19
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
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Hillsboro, OR.
- This case is one of 100 Oregon reports filed in 2018.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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