Portland, OR, USA
I was looking northeast and saw 4 very bright objects. I made my friend stop the car and I got out and took 4 pictures with my phone.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-23
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-portland-or-2014-f861e4
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
Portland, OR logged 4 reports in the single month of November 2014.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 227 sightings in 2014.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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