Portland, OR, USA
A football sized glowing orange saucer shaped object , hovering completely still over head, disappears into the horizon in a flash.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-20
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-portland-or-1965-6c5d6f
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 4 Oregon reports filed in 1965.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% 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.