CaseTriangle2008

Portland, OR, USA

4 Large Triangular Objects flying low and silent over tanasbourne area around 7pm 11-13-08, Dim orange circles underneath.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-13
Where
Portland, OR, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 secs total
Geo
45.523, -122.676 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-portland-or-2008-f2574f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Portland, OR in November 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Portland, OR has 557 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 93 reports from Oregon.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.