Portland, OR, USA
Around 11:10 p.m. on July 22,2004 my boyfriend and I were out watching satelites on our front lawn. As I looked to my right I exclaime
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-22
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-portland-or-2004-66514e
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Portland, OR reports filed in July 2004.
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 93 reports came from Oregon in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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