Portland, OR, USA
I was walking my dog. It's a bright night, huge yellow moon in the sky, when i saw this thing hovering very smoothly overhead. I looked
Report quality: High81/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-29
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-portland-or-2020-9bab03
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Portland, OR reports filed in July 2020.
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 237 reports came from Oregon in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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