Unknown over Beaverton, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
WHITE BALL OF LIGHT SLOWLY MOVING IN THE SAME AREA FREQUENTLY
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 2007-04-12 → 2007-04-29
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January 9, 2022 · 4:55 PM · CIGAR
Beaverton, OR
Observed by passenger in our car who noticed a bright vertical cigar shaped light and tail in the sky. Seemed as if the tail was getting longer, we pulled over and observed this for about 20 minutes.
December 28, 2020 · 5:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Beaverton, OR
At approximately 17:35 on December 28th, 2020, I was heading home from work on Tile Flat Rd westbound between SW Scholls Ferry Rd and SW Farmington Rd. After passing the intersection with SW Clark Hill Rd I noticed what appeared to be three white lights appearing to mark the outside corners of a solid object at about 25 degrees above the horizon. I was unable to stop on that road to get any pictures. I turned onto SW Farmington Rd heading west. I went through the intersection at SW Road Bridge Rd and could again see the object. By this time, it had lowered to about 18 degrees above the horizon and was quite noticeably further from me and continuing to move slowly away. I turned onto Highway 219 northbound towards Hillsboro and drove for about 1 ¼ miles and was able to find a safe place to pull off the road. The time was 17:48. The object was visible about 8 degrees off the horizon just above the coast range mountains. I was able to get a little over three minutes of video of the object. The camera I used was unable to get a consistent clear image, but it appears to clearly show at least the three corner lights. The one closest to me was the brightest with the other two being visible, but dimmer. I tried pointing to it for people driving by, but apparently I was unable to catch their attention to stop and view it. After I stopped the camera, I tried to reach it with a 5 mA blue laser with no reaction. I was able to see it periodically for about the next ten minutes, but then it disappeared below the horizon. The sighting lasted from 17:35 to about 17:55.
December 28, 2020 · 5:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Beaverton, OR
At approximately 17:35 on December 28th, 2020, I was heading home from work on Tile Flat Rd between SW Scholls Ferry Rd and SW Farmington Rd. After passing the intersection with SW Clark Hill Rd I noticed what appeared to be three white lights appearing to mark the outside corners of a solid object at about 25 degrees above the horizon. I was unable to stop on that road to get any pictures. I turned onto SW Scholls Ferry Rd heading west. I went through the intersection at SW Road Bridge Rd and could again see the object. By this time, it had lowered to about 18 degrees above the horizon and was quite noticeably further from me and continuing to move slowly away. I turned onto Highway 219 northbound and drove for about 1 ¼ miles and was able to find a safe place to pull off the road. The time was 17:48. The object was visible about 8 degrees off the horizon just above the coast range mountains. I was able to get a little over three minutes of video of the object. The camera I used was unable to get a clear image, but it appears to clearly show at least the three corner lights. The one closest to me was the brightest with the other two being visible, but dimmer. I tried pointing to it for people driving by, but apparently I was unable to catch their attention to stop and view it. After I stopped the camera, I tried to reach it with a 5 mA blue laser with no reaction. I was able to see it periodically for about the next ten minutes, but then it disappeared below the horizon. The sighting lasted from 17:35 to about 17:55.
October 29, 2020 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Beaverton, OR
For the past week between midnight and 2am I have seen a circular shaped object in the sky that moves extremely slow and has multicolored lights flashing colors of red, blue, green, and white lights. I live in an area where air traffic going to and from Portland airport is a constant appearance and I know what an aircraft looks like. The object with the multicolored lights is definitely not an aircraft coming or going from the airport. I have never seen anything like this object and I would like to know if anyone can explain what it is?
August 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Beaverton, OR
From West to North the white circles traveled one at a time over my house .There were 5 .Then 2 of them werefollowing each other it looked like they were traveli g the same speed perfect distance apart steadily then they started to travel faster north. I wT hed then till Icouldbt see them anymore. They were not llanes the round circles did not flash and stayed bright contiously.
July 25, 2020 · 3:15 AM · LIGHT
Beaverton, OR
On July 25th 2020 at 0315 my fiance and I were in Beaverton, OR looking NE into the sky. We witnessed for at least 20 minutes a UFO slightly above the horizon. It would move from left to right and up and down very slowly. Then it would disappear and reappear. It disappeared about 3 times just to reappear again in a different spot above the horizon. We also witnessed very fast streaks of light moving side to side near the UFO. I am 100% positive that it was NOT an airplane. Airplanes can't move in the manner that this craft was moving. It just looked like a star... A star that moved in weird directions, disappeared and reappeared several times. It was still there when we went inside. My fiance was cold so we went indoors. I saw my roommate a few minutes after being inside, I then told him about what we had seen. My roommate and I then went outside to see it. As soon as we stepped outside, I pointed it out to him and it just looked like a star. Ho! wever, it started to move to the right and then disappeared again. I'm not sure if it came back or not, we both went inside after seeing it.