CaseLight1998
Portland, OR, USA
GETTING OUT OF MY CAR TO WORK,I SAW A WIDE GREEN STREAK OF LIGHT IN THE SOUTHWEST SKY,FROM SKY TO GROUND...........
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-01
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 sec
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-1998-3f0f54
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Oregon in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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