SW Portland, OR, USA
The formation veered off their course and then accelerated higher into the sky at an approximately 45 deg angle, flying higher
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-14
- Where
- SW Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-sw-portland-or-2020-bf79fc
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
- One of 1 documented reports from SW Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 237 sightings in 2020.
- Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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