UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA, OR, USA

Smaller round unknown and multicolored stat. figures in the sky and not a star. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD)) ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-01-01
Where
Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
current
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
circle-over-portland-or-vancouver-wa-or-2017-a952fa
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…

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In context

  • Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA, OR shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 127 reports came from Oregon in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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