CaseSphere2005
Ashland, OR, USA
Brown spherical UFO seen in broad daylight
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-18
- Where
- Ashland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 42.195, -122.709 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ashland-or-2005-38fc8d
Wave
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
- Ashland, OR shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 108 reports came from Oregon in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.