CaseSphere1999
Portland, OR, USA
From airplane saw orange glowing craft. Oily substance emited from craft and the stars behind the oily substance became greatly magnifi
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-08
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portland-or-1999-187c13
Local cluster
Local cluster
Portland, OR logged 3 reports in the single month of January 1999.
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 106 sightings in 1999.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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