CaseCylinder1998
Portland, OR, USA
The object was flying at a very high speed(probably 3000 miles per hour) without making any sound.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-26
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-portland-or-1998-b3abd1
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Portland, OR in July 1998 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 60 reports from Oregon.
- The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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