Portland, OR, USA
((Hoax??)) Oblong hexagonic shape, 3 lights, odd cylinder bump on bottom of craft.
Report quality: Low21/100
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 (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-10-13
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-portland-or-2018-1a3ef1
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…
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 100 Oregon reports filed in 2018.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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