CaseLight2002
Portland, OR, USA
Observed what appeared to be a dim satellite make a U-turn, then accelerate to an unbelievable speed.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-16
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 Seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-or-2002-1170c3
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 97 Oregon reports filed in 2002.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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