Light over The Dalles, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I saw weird, moving lights along the Columbia River heading Eastward.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2003-11-23 → 2003-12-10
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August 11, 2023 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
The Dalles, OR
It was moving from west to east. We were watching the meteor shower and this faint, light colored object just slid across the sky making no sound. It was about one inch across at arms length and traveled an arc of about 90 degrees in 10 seconds. It was really hard to see. My wife also saw it. I saw it as an oval with axis west to east. She saw it as two triangular wings going north and south. Not a bird. Absolutley no sound.
March 25, 2021 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
The Dalles, OR
A bright ball to the right of mt hood (south west of here) coming closer and becoming brighter, 0.2 inches at arms length. We saw a cloud forming behind it as it traveled from sw to ne. Directly west it was at 10 o'clock in the sky, about a foot long, many large, bright chunks and smaller bright pieces like many sparklers. Looked like ATV-1 re-entry on Youtube. Was still buring up when it reached the far horizon.
February 6, 2020 · 5:30 PM · DISK
The Dalles, OR
My twelve year old son was in our backyard when he looked out over our town to the North (we live on a hill) and saw a disk on edge that was about 4 inches across at arms length and seemed to be 2-3 miles away, 500 to 1000 feet above the town, silently moving slowly away to the North. The side he saw was light in shade but had dark vertical stripes narrower than his fingers. He ran excitedly inside after looking at it to tell my wife but she was on the phone with me – I was at a hardware store and I knew what time it was from that. At the time it was fairly dark and cloudy. The object was gone when he went back to look at it.
May 25, 2019 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
The Dalles, OR
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July 21, 2016 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
The Dalles, OR
Mid afternoon, sunny day. Smallish craft, maybe the size of a mid-to full sized RV? Bright reflective silvery shimmering surface, wedge shaped. About 200 feet from shore, maybe only 500-1000 feet above the Columbia River. It suddenly arrived, hovered briefly, then flew off extremely quickly. Looked as if there was another one high up in the sky, hovering for a while above. I have operated small drones. This did not look like, nor move like any drone I have ever seen. No apparent sound, silent running.
April 30, 2014 · 9:50 PM · FORMATION
The Dalles, OR
Formation of 5 ufos sighted over The Dalles, Oregon.