CaseFireball2020

Medford, OR, USA

Flaming object traveling extremely quickly from east to west duration lasting between 3 and 8 seconds descended towards Jacksonville.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-28
Where
Medford, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.327, -122.876 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-medford-or-2020-31e8ac
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

April 2020 was a busy month for Medford, OR: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 75 reports logged in Medford, OR.
  • This case is one of 237 Oregon reports filed in 2020.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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