UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

portland, OR, USA

Orb moved from south to north parallel to bridge approximately 100-150 yards away at a relatively slow speed before speeding away

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-02-17
Where
portland, OR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-portland-or-2020-cecfc4
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

4 reports came out of portland, OR in February 2020 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 237 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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