CaseFormation2020

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

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  • 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
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…

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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