Eugene, OR, USA
Brilliant, erratically zig-zagging, fast-moving object in 4th of July sky at Eugene,Oregon
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-04
- Where
- Eugene, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 44.052, -123.087 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-eugene-or-2004-cc2587
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…
Local cluster
Eugene, OR logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2004.
In context
- One of 160 documented reports from Eugene, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 93 sightings in 2004.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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