Christmas Valley, OR, USA
amber color really fast one appeared really close so i pulled over and got out to hear it and it took off and they were gone in a blink
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-20
- Where
- Christmas Valley, OR, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 43.236, -120.637 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-christmas-valley-or-2009-063104
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
- Christmas Valley, OR shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 80 reports came from Oregon in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.