Portland, OR, USA
Orange orb with aura
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-23
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-2020-04acfc
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…
Local cluster
May 2020 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 237 Oregon reports filed in 2020.
- Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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