CaseFireball2016

Sandy, OR, USA

Huge ball of light falls to earth after stalling.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-21
Where
Sandy, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
<20 seconds
Geo
45.397, -122.261 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sandy-or-2016-0616f9
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

  • Sandy, OR shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 167 reports came from Oregon in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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