La Grande, OR, USA
Our family saw a slow moving bright red sphere above the neighborhood disappearing into the sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-04
- Where
- La Grande, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 45.325, -118.088 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-la-grande-or-2009-47e088
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
- La Grande, OR has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 80 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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