Portland, OR, USA
Two faint pinpricks of light, flying much faster than an airplane, orbiting each other.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-12
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-2008-926827
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…
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 93 sightings in 2008.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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