CaseSphere2001
Portland, OR, USA
Daytime UFO sighting over Portland Oregon
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-17
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portland-or-2001-235b67
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Portland, OR reports filed in August 2001.
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Oregon in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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