Circle over Tualatin, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was a pretty big, much bigger than a star. It was circular shape and was completely white with faint colors trailing after it. (The colors were a mix of purple, pink, blue, and green. Maybe a little bit of yellow or orange.) It appeared out of thin air and was moving in a straight line for around 2-3 seconds. Maybe 4 seconds but I doubt it. It disappeared after a few moments.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142942). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-08-28 → 2018-09-14
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January 1, 2022 · 12:07 AM · OTHER
Tualatin, OR
Location: Seen from Tualatin, OR Approx 23-26 miles south of PDX Airport Timeframe & Details Midnight - big fireworks going on from some house below me. Then at video #1 12:07 (i'm facing straight to the East and the fireworks were fairly low in the sky - just above the houses below me). Decided to go out and take a video of what my friend was missing out on, to show her in am). Went out and ended up only seeing and filming the very last firework. Clicked the phone off, and then I saw a strange large amber glow up and over a little to the right..opened the phone and snapped a pic. (I wanted to video but opened in camera mode and snapped a pic instead. 12:08 - picture. What I saw was a lot bigger visually than what the camera shows. hurried and went to video, because it looked so different from anything I've seen in the sky. It seemed to be hovering - like a helicopter would, in my mind, like it was watching the fireworks. for some reason, i waved haha. then noticed it was now moving... that's when my nerves started freaking out. 12:08 - 1st video of object- while filming, i could tell it was slowly moving in my direction, not at me, but straight from East to west. I went to move to get a better angle to video, and my sandal was frozen to the ground, so after pulling a few times, I moved and started filming again. 12:09 - Continuing the filming of the 1st object I saw. (seemingly to slowly move West/SW and possibly climbing.) Notes: 1. While watching the video back, I noticed that there was a lower object shown at the end of the video, but didn't notice it then, because when I looked back to my left, to walk back to my back door, i saw 2 more coming from same direction as first, and they were also moving very slowly. 2. From the time I started videoing the first one, in my mind, I kept repeating, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared. I was so filled with fear. After waving and noticing the first one slowly moving somewhat in my direction, I couldn't get the image of it coming over my house and then all the other scary thoughts that go with that were running through my head.. If any of them would've come towards my house, I wouldn't have been able to continue to video. I felt that scared! 3. Because it was so cold and my nerves were on high edge, I was shaking a lot and videos were not steady. *the object's movements were very slow and steady. 4. There was what seemed like a bright, big, close star or possible satellite?? from viewing that, it can help see the movement of the objects as it/they pass in front of it. 5. 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I try to turn my phone sideways - you can still track them from the steady bright white light. 12:11 Continued filming of those 3 objects, but starting with my phone sideways. talking to myself - saying that it was as if they were watching the fireworks. the movements of two objects traveling together, seemed so weird to me. Like they are separate, and doing a little dance together. 12:12 - moving to try and capture them as they moved away West, then they just seemed to flicker out.) 12:12 - tried to focus on bright white spot, to see if I could find them again. nope 12:13 - Then Saw one more coming from my left (East). I think I whispered something like "Don't scare me, Oh my God, there's another one", and I was so scared, i stopped filming sky, and started walking to my back door to go inside. Then lifted my phone to continue to film the object, while standing next to my door. *The objects did not make any sound that I could hear. At all. 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Tualatin, OR
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Tualatin, OR
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