CaseTeardrop2005
Estacada, OR, USA
the craft came without light or noise
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-12
- Where
- Estacada, OR, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2min
- Geo
- 45.290, -122.334 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-estacada-or-2005-da99fd
Wave
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
- Estacada, OR has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
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.