North Powder, OR, USA
We observed a orange orb in the sky at the adjacent mountain ridge and watched it desend to the other side.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-24
- Where
- North Powder, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 45.028, -117.920 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-north-powder-or-2020-63c6e0
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
- North Powder, OR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 237 reports from Oregon.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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