Disk over Hillsboro, OR
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The report, as filed
We were working out in front of our house, and I noticed an object high in the distance, hanging motionless in the sky. I told my husband and son and we grabbed the binoculars and started watching it. It did not move, and if it did, it was extremely slow to where you hardly noticed it. 2 other people going by in a car stopped and asked what we were looking at. They got out of the car and also witnessed it. Through the binoculars it was extremely bright white. I drew a picture of the shape. I also took some photos and a video but it was so high up, my cell phone just cannot get a great shot of it. It hung there about 15 minutes and then disappeared into the distance.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134663). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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December 28, 2020 · 5:35 PM · TRIANGLE
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At approximately 17:35 on December 28th, 2020, I was heading home from Ham Radio Outlet on SW Pacific Ave in Portland OR on Tile Flat Rd westbound between SW Scholls Ferry Rd and SW Farmington Rd to my home in Forest Grove OR. After passing the intersection with SW Clark Hill Rd I noticed what appeared to be three bright white lights appearing to mark the outside corners of a solid object at about 25 degrees above the horizon. I would estimate the object to have had about 100 feet between each light on the bottom side. There were more lights along one edge of the object. 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 two of the three corner lights and a couple of the back edge lights. The one closest to me was the brightest with the rest 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 as I continued on my way home, but then it disappeared below the horizon. The sighting lasted from 17:35 to about 17:55. Below is as close a rendition as I could recollect. Reflection on the incident reminded me that there were lights along one edge, but I cannot clearly remember the exact configuration of those lights. I believe they were round as well.
April 29, 2019 · 10:10 PM · FORMATION
Hillsboro, OR
I was helping a friend move his car from my parking lot. As I walked out into the night air, I suddenly stopped in my tracks and looked up (I still don’t know why or what reason I did that) as my friend continued walking. It was that strong sense you get when someone is looking at you that drew me to look up, I think. (I don’t know which direction, like NW, SE, etc. …sorry, I’m a girl) – but I can tell you I was in Hillsboro, OR, in the Orenco Platform District. Though its light(s) were very dim at first, my eyes locked on it immediately. It was way too high up to be a plane (and a few did cross underneath as I stared). It blinked at me slowly, as if acknowledging that it was seeing me (or watching the area). The light strobed from soft white to yellow to blue and red, in random order. It was stationary, hovering, but it would jerk to its left or right in a millisecond, then up or down, but for the most part, remained in its general spot high up in the clouds. Then I started noticing other lights just like it in the clouds, in the periphery. Together the lights formed a gigantic circle, outlining some kind of enormous craft half-hidden behind the clouds, and just…surveying. I sat out there for a good 45 minutes and it continued to blink and slightly jolt and return to its position. And it was clear there were many others with him…or it. It was eerie but absolutely mesmerizing. I did take pics and videos with my iPhone but they aren't great.
January 4, 2019 · 8:38 PM · CYLINDER
Hillsboro, OR
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December 12, 2018 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Hillsboro, OR
About ten multi lighted hovering aircraft over 4th & Oak St Hillsboro, Oregon. They all were moving left right forward backwards and kept doing this not in any order. Each has a few lights. Can't make out the shape of the craft to dark.
March 19, 2018 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Hillsboro, OR
Each one slowly dimmed until they were no longer visible. There was one plane in the vicinity which seemed to be moving in the same direction. We got at least two videos, but they don't do them justice. They look like plain, small dots in the videos. In real life, they weren't so abruptly shaped. You might say there was an aura or haze.. There was no trail. I've seen youtube videos showing three dots in this very same formation (closest is lowest, second is highest, third is in between). Running car may have started revving a little harder/rougher.
October 15, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Hillsboro, OR
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