Portland, OR, USA
Camping out, clear night. Directly overhead, a "V" shape formation of 7 it 9 lights, with a leading light and two legs, one '
Report quality: Moderate67/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-28
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 0:00:02
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-portland-or-2019-df3dec
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
5 reports came out of Portland, OR in October 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 133 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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