CaseFireball2021

Portland, OR, USA

Seen a lot more in the past have very much encounters no reason to make things up April 2019 I've seen others I mention seeing fog Bank

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
2021-04-12
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-portland-or-2021-aae36b
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

Portland, OR logged 3 reports in the single month of April 2021.

In context

  • One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 93 sightings in 2021.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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