Portland, OR, USA
A bright light that raced across the sky and suddenly shot upward and dissapeared.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-31
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- couple seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-portland-or-2006-38f9cb
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
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 85 Oregon reports filed in 2006.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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