CaseFireball2004

Mule Creek Canyon (on the Rogue River), OR, USA

Three very large lights at different times in the sky above the tree line. Military jets flying in the area.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-19
Where
Mule Creek Canyon (on the Rogue River), OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
Slug
fireball-over-mule-creek-canyon-on-the-rogue-river-or-2004-70402f
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

  • Mule Creek Canyon (on the Rogue River), OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Oregon in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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