Circle over Beaverton, OR

The report, as filed

At around 12:30 am Saturday morning (August 29th, 2015), my boyfriend and I were sitting on our patio, when we both noticed the sky looked peculiar. I mentioned how we couldn't see the moon at all and he and I experienced the first of three immense flashes of light. We both felt this light was some sort of a scan. It lit up evertything with a fullness and completion I have never seen before. After this flash, he and I looked into the sky above Cooper Mountain and saw a large glowing orange circle. We both initially assumed it was the moon. We continued examining the orange circle and realized it was the most perfectly round shape. We sat and discussed how peculiar the air felt and in an instant the orange circle was no longer visible. We waiting to see of it was cloud cover and it was clear what we saw vanished as quickly as it came. He and I felt quite odd. I went inside and looked at the clock. Two minutes had elapsed and it felt like an eternity. After researching orange circular ufo'S and other reports on huge flashes of lights, we returned outside with my cell phone. We never saw the orange circle again, but just below where it had been we saw a blue glowing light. One could say it resembled a star. Twinkling, gliterring and mesmerizing. To our eyes it appeared blue or silver and would twinkle in and out of visibility and clarity. At 12:48, we experienced another flash of all encompassing light. The blue twinkle started to appear red. It would alternate between green, blue and red. I recorded video on my Samsung Galaxy phone camera. My camera was focusing on this object, clearly focusing. Upon closer examination we discovered the following variety of shapes and colors: 1) Blue rectangle 2) Red cylindrical 3) 2 green speheres. My boyfriend and I repeatedly asked one another for validation. We saw precisely the same things. During our time simply gazing up at the object it moved slightly right to left, flittering it seemed, and from it we saw smaller balls of light flying off and we saw these smaller balls return to it and hover close to it and again fly off at a speed unfathomable to our minds. The last huge flash of light was around 1:30 am. The object in the sky was gone at 1:45 am. My boyfriend and I felt an electric energetic sensation well into the night, and I found it difficult to take my eyes off the sky.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #121546). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.