Umpqua Nat. Forest (Idleyld Park), OR, USA
Two balls of light, moving in formation, by Mt. Theilsen was observed in Umpqua national forest by dosens of campers.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-16
- Where
- Umpqua Nat. Forest (Idleyld Park), OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-umpqua-nat-forest-idleyld-park-or-2015-7b697b
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Umpqua Nat. Forest (Idleyld Park), OR.
- This case is one of 215 Oregon reports filed in 2015.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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