Portland, OR, USA
Triangle shaped object flying across Portland Oregon at 12:15 pm Wednesday Aug 5, 2009
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-05
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1min
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-portland-or-2009-ccc8e3
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Portland, OR in August 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 80 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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