UFOMYST
CaseChanging2017

Portland, OR, USA

I saw a bright star rapidly changing color in the sky, it was so bright that the other three witnesses, (who are nearly blind,).

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-08-08
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2 hours
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
changing-over-portland-or-2017-71ed90
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Portland, OR in August 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 127 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.