existing view not in dba_views

Interesting little bug (feature?) in Oracle 8.0.5.2 for HPUX. While trying to ensure a batch job will run properly tonight, I was verifying the views that were to be updated. Looking for the view_name in dba_views, I couldn't find anything even vaguely approaching the view name. However, I could easily do a describe and select from the view as both the schema owner and a different user. The view did not show up in either all_views nor user_views as the schema owner either.

Has anyone seen this before?

Cheers,
GC

Just as a note, all the view have
the same prefix - us_(view_name).

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