CaseLight2007

Troutdale, OR, USA

Very bright red, green and blue light causing the SSE sky to glow.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-12-09
Where
Troutdale, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.539, -122.387 · exact
Slug
light-over-troutdale-or-2007-e41861
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

  • Troutdale, OR shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 113 reports came from Oregon in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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