UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Portland, OR, USA

Object seen in sky over Downtown Portland Oregon moving very slowly coming from N.E. Direction to S.W. direction. Appeared silver in c

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-16
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-portland-or-2004-c8aac4
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

Portland, OR logged 4 reports in the single month of June 2004.

In context

  • One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 93 sightings in 2004.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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