Portland, OR, USA
Seen while facing N: a big yellow fireball light fell at an angle towards the W horizon like a shooting star.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-23
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-2017-e0c458
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
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 127 sightings in 2017.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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