CaseSphere1963
Portland, OR, USA
A witness in northeast Portland, Oregon described a round, soundless, rotating spherical object hovering in the sky in July 1963, in a sighting lasting about half an hour.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-07-15
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portland-or-1963-fcfae5
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Oregon in 1963.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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