CaseSphere2013
Bandon, OR, USA
Glowing orbs over the pacific in Bandon, Oregon.
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-11
- Where
- Bandon, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 43.119, -124.408 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bandon-or-2013-e97a24
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
- Bandon, OR shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 189 reports came from Oregon in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% 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.