CaseLight2017

Portland, OR, USA

Object is in high orbit, many different patterns of movement. It appears to have thrusts of some kind going out in all directions to he

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-06
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
light-over-portland-or-2017-c756d4
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…

In context

  • Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
  • 127 reports came from Oregon in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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