CaseFireball2001
Portland, OR, USA
ball of light_w/aura shoots across portland/ nitesky....no story at 11:00
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-16
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-7sec
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-2001-e7f44b
Local cluster
Local cluster
Portland, OR logged 6 reports in the single month of August 2001.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 115 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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