Lincoln City, OR, USA
08/17/09 Lincoln City, OR Cylindrical About 3 seconds Bright green object made abrupt 90 degree turn, headed inland from over the ocean
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-17
- Where
- Lincoln City, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- aprox. 3-5 sec
- Geo
- 44.958, -124.018 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lincoln-city-or-2009-782eb6
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 45 reports logged in Lincoln City, OR.
- This case is one of 80 Oregon reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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