Occurred: 2025-01-10 21:02 Local
Reported: 2025-01-11 01:15 Pacific
Duration: 2.5 Minutes
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: Eugene, OR, USA
Location details: 44°04'17"N 123°05'35"W

Shape: Orb
Color: Red
Estimated Size: 4-6 feet diameter each orb
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: West
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: 900 feet away by ground, and 1,200 feet in the air
Estimated Speed: 60-80mph rotating, unknown when mega sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Animals reacted

UAP Over Gillespie Butte Park Eugene Oregon 01/10/2025 9:02pm

I am a 40m Military Vet and I currently work for the Department of Labor here in Eugene. I have some adrenaline left, and mainly shock, so I apologize for the quality of my writing. Trying to get it out while its fresh.

I was sitting in my home office tonight; I live at the bottom of Spyglass off Cal Young Road. I started to hear an owl, hooting insanely loud. The loudest I have ever heard to be honest and I grew up here. I decided to grab my phone and go outside to record the owl hooting because it was incredible, and I thought my partner might find it interesting when she woke up tomorrow.

I was standing on my balcony and looked to the west and saw 4 really bright amber colored lights in a perfectly straight horizontal line. At first I thought it might be night construction on HWY105 and kept waiting for the owl. Then it dawned on me that I should be looking at Gillespie Butte Park in that direction, maybe it's night construction on the butte? Then it dawned on me that the lights were way above ground level, and higher than the butte.

Then the lights started to move, in a really strange way. So I started recording. I used an iPhone SE 2nd edition which is my social media pocket phone, only using it for useless things. Not the best I know. What I saw first hand and what's in the video is a little different, it's pretty dark and my phone has terrible night filming. This is what I saw, I do not have an explanation but I am a trained observer from the military and I can tell you this was not commercial drones, no FAA lights, no helicopter and no planes and no sound.

The naked eye: The lights look like ping pong balls, bright white and maybe the size of a large beach ball you would throw around a festival or concert, 4-6 ft in diameter. They had a red glow around them that faded the farther it got out, like a haze. There were 4 of them, and they started as a horizontal static hovering group of lights, almost like you wouldn't notice them in the skyline if they didn’t move. They were of equal distance apart from one another, I would estimate 20 feet between each orb. They made no noise whatsoever and moved and maneuvered with precision and accuracy. I thought it might be possible they were some kind of elaborate drone show but they had no FAA lights at all, still a possibility but illegal for sure. Smarter people than me might find an explanation in that argument.

I started filming as they broke into 2 pairs and began orbiting each other at a constant pace, almost like a yin and yang symbol, one chasing the other but two pairs. The farthest left in the video, which is south, were rotating counterclockwise, and the pair on the right of the video, north, were spinning clockwise. They then would all group up together in the center and begin rapidly rotating with one another to create this larger glowing sphere, but it wasn't as solid of a sphere as the individual orbs. It was lumpy, hard to explain, like oatmeal in a plastic bag. Then they would split back into the two groups of counter rotating pairs. Then group together. Then the large orb breaks into a horizontal line of 4 that begins to rotate like a stick floating on water in a counterclockwise position before breaking up into pairs. It bounces back and forth after that between large orb and orbiting pairs, each time speeding up and the larger orb getting bigger. Eventually it just starts making this massive orb that is mostly red at this point and I cannot see with my naked eyes any white ping pong balls anymore. It then expands about 10x its size and takes off vertically while fading from a massive glowing ball into a dark brown then black sphere.

The video breakdown is as follows:

Original cut

3x zoom normal speed

8x zoom 0.5 speed

A selection of stills in order of events showing the different shapes it was making when combining into the large orb.

NUFORC Note:

INVESTIGATION REPORT

Investigator Kieth Bickford interviewed the witness (R) on 01-22-2025 at 1:40pm PST.

R stated that on 1-10-2025 at approximately 9:02pm PST, he was sitting in his home office and heard an owl hooting "insanely loud." R stated that he has lived in Eugene all his life and had never heard an owl hoot that loudly, so he went outside to check it out. R stated that when he was outside, he observed 4 very bright amber colored lights in a horizontal line to the west of his residence.

R stated that at first he thought the lights were from night construction on a highway near him, but then he realized that he was looking towards Gillespie Butte Park and not the highway. R then stated that the lights appeared to be above the butte which is approximately 500 feet tall. R stated that the lights started to move in "really strange ways" so he started recording the sighting on his cell phone. R stated that he was approximately 900 feet from the lights by ground, and the lights were approximately 1200 feet in the air.

R first explained the sighting with what he called the "naked eye." He stated that the lights looked like "ping pong balls" that were now bright white. R then stated that he estimated that the balls of light were approximately 4 to 6 feet in diameter, or the size of a regular beach ball. R stated that the balls of light had a "red glow" around them, but when they moved further away, the red glow looked more like a "haze."

R stated that the balls of light started as a "horizontal static hovering group of lights," and seemed to be equal distance from each other, which he estimated as 20 feet. R stated that the balls of light made no noise, and they moved and maneuvered with "precision and accuracy." R then stated that based on his military training and experience, the balls of light were not helicopters or airplanes. He did state that he might have been watching an elaborate drone show, but there were no FAA lights that he could see.

R stated that he started filming when the balls of light broke into 2 pairs, and began orbiting or chasing each other at a constant pace. He stated that it looked very similar to a Yin/Yang symbol. R stated that the 2 balls of light on the left were rotating counterclockwise, and the 2 balls of light on the right were rotating clockwise. R stated that the 2 sets came together and formed a "large glowing lumpy sphere."

R stated that the large sphere split back into 2 groups again, came together to form another large sphere, then broke into a horizontal line of 4 balls of light that rotated like a "stick floating in the water." R stated that after the horizontal line, the balls of light bounced back and forth several times from 2 pairs to a large sphere. He then stated that each time this happened, the balls of light would spin faster, and the sphere would grow larger.

R stated that eventually the balls of light made a "massive red orb," and he couldn't see the ping pong balls anymore. R then stated that the large red orb expanded to approximately 10 times its original size, took off vertically, then faded to a black sphere. R stated that all of this took approximately 2.5 minutes.

R stated that he is a highly trained military observer and in his 8 years of military service, he has never seen anything like what he saw on 1-10-2025. He also stated that he didn't want any fame or money, just possibly an answer to what he had seen and recorded. R put his original recording onto Reddit under "UAP sighting over Eugene, OR. 01-10-2025." He also put a slowed-down version of the same sighting onto Reddit under "**Update** UAP sighting over Eugene, OR. 01-10-25." R told me that he would keep me updated on any information he finds out about this incident.