Hermiston, OR, USA
Bright red sphere hovering over tree line, then dropped straight down, rose back up, and headed northwest.
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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-04
- Where
- Hermiston, OR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 75 seconds
- Geo
- 45.840, -119.289 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-hermiston-or-2017-f45690
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
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Hermiston, OR.
- This case is one of 127 Oregon reports filed in 2017.
Report
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