UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Portland, OR, USA

3 bright white lights in traingular formation with no sound and in seemingly fixed pos.. ((NUFORC Note: 3 planets in sw sky. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-11-23
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
at least 40 minutes
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
light-over-portland-or-2008-78fc1f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Portland, OR reports filed in November 2008.

In context

  • Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Oregon in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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