CaseSphere2003
Portland (I-5/Lombard Exit), OR, USA
Young woman reports witnessing F-15 fighter jets approach a peculiar sphere over Interstate 5.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-11-06
- Where
- Portland (I-5/Lombard Exit), OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-3 min.
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portland-i-5-lombard-exit-or-2003-fff901
In context
- Portland (I-5/Lombard Exit), OR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 94 reports from Oregon.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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