Portland, OR, USA
7 very slowly moving glowing aircraft, close together, traveling from S to N, in night sky in formation of 4, then with 3 behind.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-04
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-portland-or-2017-5f928c
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
Portland, OR logged 5 reports in the single month of August 2017.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 127 sightings in 2017.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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