CaseLight1999
Portland, OR, USA
Bright light hanging in sky then zig-zagging downward and disappearing.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-21
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3min.
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-1999-771c98
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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