Portland, OR, USA
orange lights over Portland OR
Report quality: High82/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-29
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-portland-or-2006-e3d96e
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
10 reports came out of Portland, OR in April 2006 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 85 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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