Triangle over Portland, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Around 10:45pm, I was biking home from work(Alberta area). My rout home takes me through the top part of Irvington neighborhood. The very first thing I noticed was flying very low, like a helicopter and was very loud. But it did not look or sound like a helicopter. It had very bright red lights on top that were glowy and vibrant. White lights on bottom. It was moving fast and I followed it for a couple blocks out of my direction and it disappeared from my sight behind houses. I allowed it to get away and continued biking home. Once I reached the very top of the hill near Alameda, I decided to stop because it's a good place to see the sky. I wasn't assuming I had seen anything extraterrestrial, more that it was truly bizarre. I was only standing at the top of the hill for less than a minute when straight ahead of me (facing south) I saw a very, very bright light. I thought it was a satellite. It was staying in one place and not seeming to move at all. It was s! haped like a hat almost, pointed on top, similar to a triangular shape. I stared for a very longtime, then noticed to it's left was the same object, slightly lower. Meaning there were two. I started filming and trying to take pictures on my iphone that are hard to decipher due to all of the other lights around. I also called my boyfriend to tell him what I was seeing. After almost 15 minutes they started moving in a west direction, pretty quickly. So they were not stars. Definitely not planes. (At least not the usual commercial flying planes). Last night (11/14/14), two days later I was driving home with my boyfriend, when straight ahead in the sky, we saw the exact same two shapes on the exact same place moving the exact same way. We both watched together as they stood in one place for a long time, then began movingn together in the same direction out of sight. This was all from Irvington Neighborhood. I am reporting 3 different sightings in this post. 2 on the same night. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115385). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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