Grants Pass, OR, USA
IT MOVED SLOWLY ALMOST IN A SMALL CIRCLE TO GET IN THE RIGHT SPOT, AND DROPED SOMETHING OUT TOWARDS THE GROUND.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-16
- Where
- Grants Pass, OR, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- APROX 5MIN
- Geo
- 42.439, -123.331 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-grants-pass-or-2008-fe9422
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
- This is one of 54 reports logged in Grants Pass, OR.
- This case is one of 93 Oregon reports filed in 2008.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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