CaseFireball2016

La Pine, OR, USA

Large bright orange fireball light silently Streaks over the Cascade mountains of central Oregon Definitely NOT a Meteor ... Too fast

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-05
Where
La Pine, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
~2 seconds
Geo
43.670, -121.504 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-la-pine-or-2016-876e94
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…

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from La Pine, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 167 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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