UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Portland, OR, USA

my house is approximately 1/4 mile from pdx(Portland airport) i am to the south of eastbound approach and can see aircraft taking off a

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-05-18
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
circle-over-portland-or-2020-1a5443
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Portland, OR reports filed in May 2020.

In context

  • Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
  • 237 reports came from Oregon in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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