Culver/Redmond (between), OR, USA
Translucent white sphere shaped ball on with striation marks on it like that of a water. ((NUFORC Note: Scientific balloon?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 8100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-07-11
- Where
- Culver/Redmond (between), OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 hours 15 min
- Geo
- 44.526, -121.213 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-culver-redmond-between-or-2018-2dd5ce
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
- Culver/Redmond (between), OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Oregon in 2018.
- 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.