CaseLight1999
Portland, OR, USA
looking west the object appeared approx near the top of our atmosphere. It was huge! It at first just seemed to appear out of thin air.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-01
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15-25 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-1999-264c11
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 106 Oregon reports filed in 1999.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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