Portland, OR, USA
Six Red Lights
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (14 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 9 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-29
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-2006-bb3bb5
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 10 Portland, OR reports filed in April 2006.
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 85 reports came from Oregon in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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