Portland, OR, USA
7 orange "fireballs" in two groups over downtown Portland, OR
Report quality: High85/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-29
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-2006-68b40f
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
April 2006 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 10 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 85 Oregon reports filed in 2006.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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