Portland, OR, USA
Before seeing this formation we saw two flashes of light at our zenith, and they were not iridium flares.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-27
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-portland-or-2013-9b2fca
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
5 reports came out of Portland, OR in July 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 189 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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