Bend, OR, USA
A large white vapor-like airplane was right on the tail of a small private plane...when it made a sharp right turn and dissapeared
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-17
- Where
- Bend, OR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- 44.058, -121.315 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bend-or-2009-b53fb9
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
- Bend, OR has 79 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 80 reports from Oregon.
Report
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