Portland, OR, USA
Mid level elevation. Unidentified brown object flashing red and white light. Moved quickly to the west then went higher in elevation an
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-24
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-portland-or-2020-ee590d
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…
Local cluster
Portland, OR logged 4 reports in the single month of February 2020.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 237 sightings in 2020.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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