Portland, OR, USA
We witnessed 7 orange spheres moving north to south over portland oregon
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 (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-23
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portland-or-2009-947b21
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
August 2009 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 80 Oregon reports filed in 2009.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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