UFOMYST
CaseDisk2004

Portland, OR, USA

Circular shaped space craft moved slowly in the sky, hovered, then shot off. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly not a serious report. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-12-14
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 - 10 seconds
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
disk-over-portland-or-2004-d92ce6
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 93 sightings in 2004.
  • Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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