CaseFireball2021

Portland, OR, USA

I happened to look up in the sky over Rocky Butte claim it for like 10 seconds eyeglass up there and there was coming down at the sky l

Report quality: High73/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-04-10
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-portland-or-2021-1bebac
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

April 2021 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
  • This case is one of 93 Oregon reports filed in 2021.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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