CaseLight1998
Portland, OR, USA
Very high altitude, small light, appeared to be a star. moved from west to east, when overhead turned 90 degrees to the north.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-12
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-1998-9d9899
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Portland, OR in September 1998 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 60 reports from Oregon.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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