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
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: 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
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
- 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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