CaseCigar1991
Portland, OR, USA
It was a long cigar shaped object; no way its some thing we built.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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 (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1991-09-15
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-portland-or-1991-06a415
Wave
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 5 Oregon reports filed in 1991.
- Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.