Sphere over Lebanon, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Jan 20 2008 Seen a silver sphere in the air.
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 2008-01-17 → 2008-02-03
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December 18, 2023 · 8:35 PM · FIREBALL
Lebanon, OR
My mom, sister and I were leaving my mom's house when we noticed what appeared to be some kind of aircraft way up high, but it looked like it was on fire. It was orange, BRIGHT orange. Despite this, it was flying calmly and making sudden turns every now and then. It took another sharp turn before suddenly disappearing completely. Unfortunately I was unable to get photo or video evidence.
September 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lebanon, OR
My girlfriend and I felt a vibration for about 15 minutes, then I went outside and looked up to see a bright light moving slowly across the sky before disappearing into an invisible object. Another light came from another direction being chased by two helicopters and one airplane. One of the helicopters landed in Lebanon for a few seconds and then left not to be seen again. The vibration ended when the first UFO disappeared.
August 11, 2022 · 10:08 PM · TRIANGLE
Lebanon, OR
My wife and I were sitting on our porch to observe the rising full moon and see meteors from the Perseid meteor shower. Emerging to the left of the moon we saw a small cluster of lights very slowly moving north. I took a photo of this then a short 5 second video. Not being in a straight line or moving faster I did not think it was the Starlink satellites. I switched my Iphone 13 to a higher video quality option and took a 2 min 58s video. During this time it hovered and/or slowly moved north. No sound. This object either had lights or the surface was reflecting the moon. I’m thinking reflection because as it moved north it started to dim. The “lights” changed orientation near the end. If it were triangle shaped and changed its angle it would make sense. In studying the photo I could see it was triangle shaped. I stopped the video to move out into our field to get a better look. By then I could still see it but it was so dim I didn’t choose to shoot more video. Shooting nearly directly into the full moon created havoc with the original video. I had to edit slightly to get rid of the brightness, work on contrast and pixelation. ** I am unable to send my 2 minute 58 second video due to its 2.23 GB file size. Allowed was just a very short clip and photo. In the photo the object is about 10:00 near the moon if you zoom in.
April 2, 2022 · 10:04 PM · CIRCLE
Lebanon, OR
The object(s) that my mom, fiancé, and myself witnessed were multiple circular objects acting in a very unexplainable way. We were looking outside and noticed a very bright “star” or so we thought until it continued to get really bright, move forward and then slowly the light would dimmer and die out, but right before the light would completely die out, another one would appear in the exact location the first one first appeared. What was odd about this was every light would appear in the same spot before moving forward as the light dimmed off. Not all of them were the same brightness either, some were brighter then others, some would start off dim while gradually getting super bright. This was not a shooting start because it was moving upwards in direction and it was nothing that any of us have ever witnessed. This happened for 8 minuets at least from what I watched. I also have a recording of this because I honestly have never seen anything like it before. There were planes in the area as well as other stars and they were 10 times bigger in size compared to those objects in the sky. I could pick this up on my camera as with stars and planes I can’t.
July 6, 2021 · 11:40 AM · CIRCLE
Lebanon, OR
Round orange shape that was bright and would have no light to it for minutes at a time Nd then eventually just was gone. Seemed to have smaller crafts around it.
May 4, 2021 · 9:25 PM · FORMATION
Lebanon, OR
Seen over the area of Lebanon, Oregon, moving from west to east—a stream of bright lights traveling relatively slowly in a straight line with a white “head” and a tight straight stream of distinct, (at least 18) various colored lights (about 2 “fingers” long) following behind—high in the sky but lower than a high flying jet. Clear sky. No evidence of any flaring out like a rocket reentering the atmosphere and the lights did not separate out. The lights appeared to be all connected in a straight line. Two witnesses watched for about 3 minutes from the time we first saw them until they passed out of sight. In our many years of sky watching my Coast Guard veteran husband and I have never seen anything like it! I am a retired College employee with a longtime interest in astronomy.