Portland, IN, USA
Light moves straight up
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-27
- Where
- Portland, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 50 seconds
- Geo
- 40.434, -84.978 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-in-2019-a0d1b7
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
3 reports came out of Portland, IN in July 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Portland, IN has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 182 reports from Indiana.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.