Portland, OR, USA
An extremely fast moving blue flash. Appeared under cloud cover and was visible for approximately 4 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-04
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-portland-or-2015-12e138
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
Portland, OR logged 4 reports in the single month of August 2015.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 215 sightings in 2015.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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