Cigar over Florence, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
cigar shaped craft
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1998-03-10 → 1998-03-27
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March 18, 2022 · 12:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Florence, OR
I have a psycho sematic stress disorder seemingly from a plethora of non proven circumstances. I did not actually see this one I spotted it as I viewed the photos. I have seen one other u.f.o. in the past in florence. It was chrome, silver or Grey. It turned without moving and made a linear projected path similar to Back To The Future leaving what appeared to be flames in its wake.
January 3, 2020 · 3:30 PM · CHANGING
Florence, OR
We were parked out on the dunes watching the ocean.. there weren't any clouds in the sky.. we kept hearing a low rumbling like a jet flying over but there were none in sight.. we both looked and seen nothing.. as we were sitting there we seen a bright flash out over the ocean and then something dropped into the water from what we could see.. 5 minutes later we seen the flash again but this time the rumbling sounded like a sonic boom from a jet.. but the sound didn't fade away like a normal jet... it was incredibly loud and was like that for about 2 minutes and then went dead silent..
November 25, 2019 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Florence, OR
At 6:00 AM I was taking out the garbage. When I looked up at the sky I saw two lights similar in appearance to stars moving east northeast across the handle of the big dipper. It was partly cloudy, with a large break of clear sky. When the two object disappeared from view to the east, I looked back to the west and saw more moving lights irregularly spaced; but all in a straight line on the same heading east northeast. Two of the lights were side-by-side and one light had a much dimmer light traveling at it’s side. The points of light were bright white at varying distances from each other and occasionally one or more would increase in speed momentarily. There were 18 to 20 of them all on the same heading, eventually traveling through the handle of the Big Dipper and then disappearing from view in the eastern sky. They were traveling much faster than a satellite, and much slower than a meteorite. The whole viewing event took appx. 2-3 minutes.
November 20, 2019 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Florence, OR
Unexpectedly awoke at approximately 1:50 and stayed in bed looking out west-facing window. Home approx 0.5 miles from the beach in a fairly dark neighborhood with no street lights. The milky way is visable on clear nights. Observed large fireball traveling from east to west at approximately 2:00, seemingly directly over the house. First instinct was to get up, put glasses on to see if it was a plane in flames (object likely moving to fast) or a meteor (very large) that had crashed. Unable to get out of bed for several minutes while attempting to rationalize sighting, perhaps due to fear. Once able to go to window, no further activity was observed (e.g., lights, fire). Nobody else in home, no reaction from dogs sleeping on upper level.
October 1, 2019 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Florence, OR
Stepped outside to look at stars as I'm a amuture astronomer. Unblinking soft orange light slowly passed overhead about 100 feet over my roofline. Went north to south till out of sight. No noise. Not plane or satellite.
November 30, 2018 · 12:22 AM · FORMATION
Florence, OR
I saw this same object, flying the same direction and flying this height about 4 weeks ago at 3:30am.