CaseLight2020

Portland, OR, USA

Bright color changing object visible across a large field of sky and exhibiting non-ballistic movement

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-19
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes + 10 minutes
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
light-over-portland-or-2020-9351a2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Portland, OR reports filed in July 2020.

In context

  • Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
  • 237 reports came from Oregon in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 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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