CaseUnknown2009

Happy Valley, OR, USA

bright neon object moves from west to east, then darts to the unknown. with the blink of an eye. ((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-18
Where
Happy Valley, OR, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2-5 minutes
Geo
45.447, -122.530 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-happy-valley-or-2009-f0d643
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Happy Valley, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 80 sightings in 2009.

Report

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