Astoria, OR, USA
Fixed bright yellow light mass, emanating multiple sharp, pointed rays all around it. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2340s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-01-15
- Where
- Astoria, OR, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 39 min
- Geo
- 46.188, -123.831 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-astoria-or-2012-1aa2bf
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
- Astoria, OR has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 181 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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