CaseCircle2005

Portland, OR, USA

05/03/05 23:30hours. the we seen in portland Oregon It moved from north to south and vanished.

Report quality: High77/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-05-03
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 min's
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
circle-over-portland-or-2005-5170c9
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Portland, OR in May 2005 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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