Lincoln City, OR, USA
Orange fireball that stood still then started moving left and right and then shooting straight up into the sky.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-28
- Where
- Lincoln City, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 44.958, -124.018 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lincoln-city-or-2013-84e425
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 45 documented reports from Lincoln City, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 189 sightings in 2013.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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