CaseSphere1990

Mt. Hood, OR, USA

From a fixed point, the object zigzad north and south, covering a 16 miles distance in no more than a second or two.

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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-08-06
Where
Mt. Hood, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
11 seconds
Geo
45.538, -121.568 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mt-hood-or-1990-765f3c
Wave

Part of a wave

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    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Mt. Hood, OR shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Oregon in 1990.
  • In the 1990s, 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.