Light over Gladstone, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Got out of my rig getting home tonight and looked across river and observed some strange reddish-orange lights dancing around above West-linn Tualatin area. Started as 3, larger than stars. Then 5 total appeared and continued to start stop and move in varying directions at varying velocities, until all but one disappeared. I get planes going in this area every 10 mins or so and after 5 & 1/2 years of living here have NEVER EVER seen anything remotely similar. The way they moved it had to have been multiple heavy duty RC helicoptors or ET????? Of course by the time I ran inside and got my big lens on they were GONE! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #117344). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-01-13 → 2015-01-30
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