CaseLight2017

Portland, OR, USA

Lights in the Portland sky with up to six lights in the sky and then the front one in the formation would take off to N.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-06-28
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
>30 minutes
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
light-over-portland-or-2017-f6dd49
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Portland, OR in June 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 127 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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