Portland, OR, USA
Portland OR May '05 event similar to Beaverton OR March '01 events.
Report quality: High71/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-01
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-2005-359dd6
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
5 reports came out of Portland, OR in May 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 108 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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