UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Colton, OR, USA

While photographing the moon last night I captured unexplained light objects that moved in each frame but could not see without camera

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-12
Where
Colton, OR, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.172, -122.438 · exact
Slug
other-over-colton-or-2017-533f59
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Colton, OR.
  • This case is one of 127 Oregon reports filed in 2017.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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