UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Portland, OR, USA

((HOAX??)) Crafts flying over Portland. Orange light from bottom. Seemed to be two, one higher than the other. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low21/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-05-07
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
oval-over-portland-or-2016-26249f
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

May 2016 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
  • This case is one of 167 Oregon reports filed in 2016.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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