UFOMYST
Caselight1997

Portland (southeast), OR, USA

Large brite white lights grouped together W/ one red light underneath.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-17
Where
Portland (southeast), OR, USA
Shape
light
Duration
5,Min.
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
light-over-portland-southeast-or-1997-57d647
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Portland (southeast), OR has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 37 reports from Oregon.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.