Portland/Vancouver (on I-5 @ Interstate Bridge), OR, USA
((HOAX??)) Massive UFO sighting iin Portland Oregon!! Something doesn't feel right.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2013-01-11
- Where
- Portland/Vancouver (on I-5 @ Interstate Bridge), OR, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1-3 hours
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-portland-vancouver-on-i-5-interstate-bridge-or-2013-9e63f1
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Portland/Vancouver (on I-5 @ Interstate Bridge), OR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 189 reports from Oregon.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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