Portland, IN, USA
2nd night in a row
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-28
- Where
- Portland, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 40 second
- Geo
- 40.434, -84.978 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-in-2019-e3a488
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, IN logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2019.
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Portland, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 182 sightings in 2019.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.