Portland, OR, USA
Multiple sightings of bright white orbs that sometimes flashed brightly.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-01
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-2016-28d1f9
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
Portland, OR logged 6 reports in the single month of April 2016.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 167 sightings in 2016.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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